Assembly course

Hello /prog/,

I have my first real exam coming up for an x86 assembly course in the next 2 weeks. My professor has stated that we will be expected to know every instruction covered and how to use them correctly. We will be writing down some snipits.

I personally found it horrible that this professor is making us memorize instructions, i mean hell they make a god damn manual for this stuff so that you can use it while coding. Who in their right mind memorizes every single instruction?


The main point of the course also is to learn about how the processor and other components of the computer actually work and relate to each other which further makes this tedious memorization stupid when we should be focusing on the actual details of what goes on behind the scenes.


What do you think /prog/?

x86 assembly
x86 is Jewish shit

memorizing x86

He wants you to go insane.

8086 isn't that complex. That's usually are you gotta learn, realmode and such.

Everything else depreciates too fast to be taught, sse* is already made obsolete by gpgpus them integrated on silicon and opencl compilers.

>>1
Are you taking CSC 256 with Dr. Hsu at San Francisco State University?

>>5
No

It's pretty simple to remember if you exclude the FPU and the MMX/SSE/fuckmyassnow! shit