A simple binary tree program -- in assembler
I believe every programmer must learn assembly programming. It brings the programmer and the machine closer and strengthens the bond between them. I learned the term GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out) when I got first introduced to computer programming. Nothing has changed since. The languages and their environments have become better beyond doubt. Still, a computer and its resources are as good as its programmer. Assembly language makes you understand how the machine is working beyond all that glittery higher level languages. If you are a system programmer, learning assembly becomes a must because there are things that C can't handle. I will leave more discussion on "Why learning assembly is important" for later post. Every new architecture that I learn, I learn its assembler first. When I got first introduced to MIPS, I learned its assembly language. Below is a program that I wrote to achieve that. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ...