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A guy at the Chicago library showed me his 1987 floppy disk drive and now I get why assembly matters
I was at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago last month for a free coding meetup and this older dude next to me pulled out a working Commodore 64 setup. He typed a few lines of assembly and the thing drew a bouncing ball on the screen faster than my laptop runs a hello world in Python. I always thought assembly was a waste of time for new coders since everyone says just learn Python first. But watching him count clock cycles by hand and explain why each instruction cost what it did made me see that high level languages hide the whole story. Now I want to spend a weekend learning basic assembly on an emulator, does anyone have a guide that doesn't assume I already know C?
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