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I'm glad you liked it! By a teenagers' guide I meant it was written by teens (including me: I'm 17). What do you think of the warehouse analogy?

alisonatwork 4y ago
Can't speak for the OP but I really liked it. It reminded me a bit of the computer game Human Resource Machine[0], which creates a mini assembly language that you use to handle a "production line" of incoming numbers. [0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Machine/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Mac...
- quackduck 4y ago
  ooh thanks for sharing that game
- sargun 4y ago
  I love it! There's also a mobile version apparently.
- djmips 4y ago
  This is a great way to accidentally learn assembly language! I was so amused that a designer friend of mine who swore they could never learn to program solved this game and in certain cases, more optimally than myself, and I have a fair amount of experience in assembly.
DantesKite 4y ago
What a remarkable group of people you are. Also I didn’t realize Rollercoaster Tycoon was primarily written in Assembly. That’s nuts.
- criddell 4y ago
  Steve Gibson (grc.com) uses assembly for most (all?) of the software he distributes. For example, his DNS Nameserver Benchmarking utility[1] is 160 KB and when you download it, it's a single uncompressed executable and has a decent win32 UI. It will run any version of Windows going back to Windows 95. Could you even run a mid-90's era macOS or KDE+Linux executable on a current Mac or Linux machine? (I don't think Gnome even existed yet). [1]: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
mhh__ 4y ago
Not great not terrible. Analogies aren't that useful IMO, so it's cute but might not be a useful pedagogical aid. Conceptual flaws (mainly down the line rather than introductory): One issue with it down the line is that processors spend a lot of their design budgets avoiding carting memory around. You don't have to mention that explicitly but in my skim reading I would've (if I were writing it) tried to emphasize something more akin to a postal sorting room than a warehouse as per se. Maybe that's too advanced, but I understood it when I was 18 or 19 so YMMV. One interesting demo is to see how much assembly you can fit in a single memory access latency.
themadturk 4y ago
The warehouse analogy was great. You and your co-writers did a fantastic job.

alisonatwork 4y ago

Can't speak for the OP but I really liked it. It reminded me a bit of the computer game Human Resource Machine[0], which creates a mini assembly language that you use to handle a "production line" of incoming numbers. [0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Machine/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Mac...

quackduck 4y ago
ooh thanks for sharing that game
sargun 4y ago
I love it! There's also a mobile version apparently.
djmips 4y ago
This is a great way to accidentally learn assembly language! I was so amused that a designer friend of mine who swore they could never learn to program solved this game and in certain cases, more optimally than myself, and I have a fair amount of experience in assembly.

DantesKite 4y ago

What a remarkable group of people you are. Also I didn’t realize Rollercoaster Tycoon was primarily written in Assembly. That’s nuts.

criddell 4y ago
Steve Gibson (grc.com) uses assembly for most (all?) of the software he distributes. For example, his DNS Nameserver Benchmarking utility[1] is 160 KB and when you download it, it's a single uncompressed executable and has a decent win32 UI. It will run any version of Windows going back to Windows 95. Could you even run a mid-90's era macOS or KDE+Linux executable on a current Mac or Linux machine? (I don't think Gnome even existed yet). [1]: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

mhh__ 4y ago

Not great not terrible. Analogies aren't that useful IMO, so it's cute but might not be a useful pedagogical aid. Conceptual flaws (mainly down the line rather than introductory): One issue with it down the line is that processors spend a lot of their design budgets avoiding carting memory around. You don't have to mention that explicitly but in my skim reading I would've (if I were writing it) tried to emphasize something more akin to a postal sorting room than a warehouse as per se. Maybe that's too advanced, but I understood it when I was 18 or 19 so YMMV. One interesting demo is to see how much assembly you can fit in a single memory access latency.

themadturk 4y ago

The warehouse analogy was great. You and your co-writers did a fantastic job.