crazykid48x

my problem is I know how to program (a little) but I dont know much about programing. I have made afew windows aps in c++ but i really want to understand how they work rather than just how to make them. I heard someone say that learning a language like assembly will help me understand programing altogether, is that true?

DaWei

Nope. It's a different mindset. Much less abstraction. It WILL help you to understand how the machine works. Mostly, with a high-level language, one wants to avoid that.

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Polyphemus_

it won't help if you want to understand more about graphics programming using another library, since you will still have to use that specific library. It will help for understanding how your system works, though.

Mad_guy

It does allow you to see how your program works 'under the hood,' to an extent. Assembly experiance is also invaluable to people in security research teams and systems programmers, as they can not only use Assembly to reverse engineer and diagnose malware to make scanners for the malware and inoculate systems against it, but also spelunk your operating system and looking at how some of the undocumented parts of it work (this is absolutely invaluable to a windows systems programmer.)

Mjordan2nd

Yea, it will help you understand how the machine works, not necessarily how a certain library works. I'd reccomend learning it, though.

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