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I'd like to share an old Dylan Cuthbert blog post on his hypothesis that Assembly is actually easier for kids to learn programming.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-03-30-machine-co...



that was my experience too. An abstraction like "add" is not less complicated than "1" if both are equally new things. The number actually gives additional features. The next instruction is called "2" while in abstraction to words it is unguessable and hard to remember: unGuessAble? un_guessable? ungu? ung?




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