I am looking for a course covering assembly language programming. The Intel x86 family or a course using a virtual machine such as Ant-8 or Ant-23 would be preferable though I am open to other ideas. I took a course in iAPx86 assembly language at university but the course title is Systems Programming not Assembly Language Programming, and TESC uses both titles to mean different things or so it seems.
I found an online course in assembly language CST 220 Introduction to Microprocessors at Broome Community College (Online). This is in case TESC refuses to accept the Systems Programming course I took as equivalent to Assembly Language Programming. I will know one way or the other in November when I apply to TESC.
Why on earth would you want to learn assembler? I used to program drivers in assembler in the mid 1980’s (for fun when I was a kid) on the Motorola 6809 chipset. It was tough, but in 8-bits I could keep track of what was going on. I progressed to the Texas Instruments TMS9900 chipset, but soon found better uses of my time. Nowadays with C, I don’t think assembler is a viable language, and with 64-bit architectures, I don’t see how a human could dedicate enough time to program against the chip directly anyway. Don’t waist your time, learn C or Java, which will instill better programming methodology within you anyway. DEL
Thanks for the advice. However, I already know how to program in assembly language, C, and a variety of other languages. I just need a credit course which can be used to meet one of the required courses for a degree from Thomas Edison State College. I have years of software programming experience and am well-versed in proper programming methodology.
