7 Apr
2009
7 Apr
'09
8:14 p.m.
But aren't those books written with assembly as
the language for the
examples? First, how could anybody get anything done with an assembly
language. And second, it isn't even for a "real" machine. It is
something he cooked up. So you read the book and you didn't even learn
to program a real computer. Where are the marketable skills?
Many a true word is, alas, spoken in jest.
Amd your paragraph is one of the msot worrying things about the state of
education and employment today :-(
FWIW, I am not a CS or a CE. But I have read (most of) 'The Art of
Computer Programming'. I am not saying I remember much of it, but I bet
it would come back to me if I read it again. But then I like to read all
sort of technical books for fun.
-tony