A86: Re: Re: Re: Re: [OT] A TI compiler - Why not?


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A86: Re: Re: Re: Re: [OT] A TI compiler - Why not?




heheh, then maybe that is why they were so easy ;)

tho maybe it also had something to do with me knowing a bit about x86 asm.
who woulda thunk it?


-  Jarrod Overson
----- Original Message -----
From: David Phillips <david@acz.org>
To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 10:21 PM
Subject: A86: Re: Re: Re: [OT] A TI compiler - Why not?


>
> No offense meant to Trent in anyway (heck, his tutorials probably helped
me
> the most to do more than "hello world"), but do you know why his tutorials
> are understandable?  Because he didn't know very much assembly at all.  He
> understood computer programming (majoring in it at college, I believe), so
> the programming aspects were easy.  He could write simple code to do
> anything he wanted to do.
>
> Because he didn't know much, he didn't overwhelm people.  The people to
> write tutorials for beginners are the people who just started asm.  Those
of
> us who have been doing it for a while forget just how much there is to
learn
> :)
>
> > Maybe if people took more time to right more down-to-earth tutorials
(like
> > trent lillehaugen (sp?) did, his were good, but brief).  That would have
> > helped me a ton, i know it takes time to write tutorials, but so many of
> > them seem so advanced to the average programmer, that it may throw them
> off.
>
>



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