[reverendsteveii]

If it makes you feel any better as of 2005 or so Pitt's computer science degree still includes learning assembly language and the particular Turtle-Headed Sadist that teaches it at the Johnstown branch campus won't let you use hex opcodes for the first few weeks of the course so you're literally coding in unadorned 1s and 0s. I hated him for it. I hate him for it. But nothing compares to the dopamine pop I had when figured out how to do long division using only addition, subtraction, conditionals and jumps. Not that that's a groundbreakingly difficult problem, it was just one of my favorite "aha!" moments in my entire career.