[nomel]

You might be surprised how many people don’t understand the bit level basics these days. They’re not really the focus anymore, and they probably shouldn’t be. The point of advancing technology is to push the mundane, low level, difficulties away to make bigger concepts/abstractions easier to piece together and mentally bear.

From what I’ve seen with most recent grads, the education is shifting more and more towards algorithms, with experience mostly involving the use of existing libraries/frameworks, rather than lower level implementations that us “old timers” were forced to implement ourselves, thanks to lack of accessibility to freely usable code. I think GitHub, StackOverflow, and Google have changed the mental model of software development, significantly. I don’t think that’s a bad thing at all since it should free up some beans, especially for someone new to the field.

Not knowing this will bite you eventually, but it’s fairly trivial to work out.