I suppose it depends on the end - what you want to do. I find if one free-wheels with a open reference book and no goal, little of the knowledge sticks. Pick a project idea. Could be a game, could be some useful utility, etc and use that as the focus of your learning. If assembly is the right tool to realize it, go that route. It may be an easier road in C, Forth, or some other language. Picking up a text and deciding I'm going to learn something by reading said text, rarely works imho. And of course if you don't use it regularly after you learn it, it will fade quick. -Alan On 2017-01-17 01:41, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
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. :)