Learn to Program with Assembly: Foundational Learning for New Programmers

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J. BartlettLearn to Program with Assemblyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7437-8_19

19. Conclusion and Acknowledgments

Jonathan Bartlett¹  

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Tulsa, OK, USA

 

My goal for this book was to demystify what happens in computer programming. I think many people—even professional computer programmers—sometimes forget what is really happening under the hood. If you know assembly language, however, you can see how what you are doing in a high-level language is getting mapped onto the core constructs of assembly language. When a programming language implements a new feature, you can better understand both the feature itself and its possible limitations, because you ...