How to hook a 13 year old on a life-long love of bare metal:
I actually learned how to code in C and x86 asm mostly from Denthor's tutorials discovered on some local Boston-area. It lead me to GCC (DJGPP), Linux and love for low-level kernel hacking. I went in a different direction career-wise, but what I learned at 13 from those tutorials taught me something fundamental about computing hardware. I made fire. I mean, I made plasma effects by talking directly to the hardware to put it in the mode I wanted, kicking off inline asm to do the twiddly stuff. How fun is that?
I actually learned how to code in C and x86 asm mostly from Denthor's tutorials discovered on some local Boston-area. It lead me to GCC (DJGPP), Linux and love for low-level kernel hacking. I went in a different direction career-wise, but what I learned at 13 from those tutorials taught me something fundamental about computing hardware. I made fire. I mean, I made plasma effects by talking directly to the hardware to put it in the mode I wanted, kicking off inline asm to do the twiddly stuff. How fun is that?