@krismicinski this reminds of a question I've had for some time: here, you show a student (I presume) a low-level representation of the program and walk them through it and it clicks. But decades ago that was simply the norm; as we get further away from hardware (or so it seems to me...) does student intuition about how their programs actually execute on real machines get similarly more abstract?
@cross @krismicinski it is absolutely getting harder every year to get them to understand the lower levels of the software stack. realistically I think we sort of need to get over it, or at least choose very carefully which low-level stuff we need them to know
@cross @krismicinski@types.pl @regehr I think there’s something absolutely joyful about platforms that are powerful enough that you can build legit software for them but simple enough that a single human can plausibly understand every aspect of hardware’s operation if they are sufficiently interested.
*looks pointedly at TI-84+*
