[liquidify]

I always wanted to do this stuff, but classes just never taught it. I think some of the ECE students got some classes which taught some assembly, but not us lowly CS people.

[commandlinefan]

No kidding? When did you go to school? When I went back for my master's degree in 2005, they made me take a "leveling" undergraduate x86 assembler course because my 90's-era S/360 (yes, in the 90's) was too out-of-date, but they definitely required at least one full assembler course back then.

[coldpie]

Well, assembly doesn't have much to do with computer science. The fact that aspiring programmers are taking CS degrees is the root of this problem =/

[therealcamino]

It used to be standard to teach a Computer Organization course, which would involve some assembly programming, even in a liberal arts CS program.

[pjmlp]

Sure it does, the problem here is the existence of CS degrees that don't teach programming properly.