After posting my assembly-for-newbs question, it occurred to me that perhaps I should be asking this instead: with no experience other than LOGO and then BASIC, which (period 1980s) language should I learn next? Was it normal to go from BASIC directly to assembly (is BASIC enough preparation), or were people better off getting some in-between experience with a language such as Pascal or something else?
Keep in mind that my natural aptitude is liberal arts, not math. :)
Evan
Focus on mastering one environment at a time. If you pick the Apple II, learn 6502 assembly basics, enough to PEEK and POKE values from Apple BASIC or LOGO. You can use BASIC as the control language and call little assembly routines as needed when BASIC does not done what you want. You can take BASIC pretty far, nothing wrong with mastering that. Once you get the BASIC program working, compile it, let the computer do the work of converting into machine lang. so it runs faster. That's the practical get the job done approach. If you want to be an academic "programming engineer" learn C. B