Re:Assembly isn't obsolete! (Score 1)

Sadly, this couldn't be more true. At my university we glossed over assembly and I it would seem as though they have distanced themselves from lower-level programming. I am not sure whether this is out of practicality or to make the curriculum easier and have more students join the program. It is interesting how many students lack skills outside of the point-and-click gui's when it comes to computing. Gasps can be heard around the room at the mention of a command line. To me the most important part of learning programming was not the syntax, but what is actually happening behind the scenes. The focus seems to have drifted away from those areas and is a little disconcerting, I would directly that to the shift in what people believe is the importance of college. Rather than giving individuals knowledge and insight so they can easily adapt to many skills, they tend to focus on just jumping straight to the skills and produce great worker bees. What I am attempting to explain is that rather than have a few courses on theoretical concepts and how various languages are used and interrelate, they just teach you a few of the common languages and ship you off (ie. java). What this is going to produce is a large group of young workers who will easily integrate into the current workforce right now, but once technologies change, those same individuals are going to have a hard time adapting and understanding the new concepts (well, they also might be producing bloated code not knowing what is truly going within the hardware). So the growing concern is not technology becoming obsolete, but the young workforce.