[GingisK]

I found that understanding computers at the assembler level makes it a lot easier to understand the quirks of high level languages. It seems the most difficult concept to teach in programming is the nature of variables and how to use them. The relationships between variables and instruction streams is quickly learned in assembler.

But you DID need to be a compulsive commentor.

Of course. Rust never sleeps, and all parenthesis/braces must be balanced. Woe to the non-compliant.

[mairdie]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!! My first masters was education and I was teaching computing to 5th graders. I taught them registers and data with candy, but the computers kept making errors because the data kept disappearing into small mouths. Later I wrote a thesis on developing a computer language for children without variables based on Backus’ Reduction Languages. It had the quality that it worked until the kids got to that 5th/6th grade level, then you needed a PhD to understand the language. Total failure.