>> If your students already have programming experience (in BASIC or
>> whatever), they should be able to pick up assembly language VERY
>> quickly, but even if they don't, it shouldn't take very long.
>
>Once again it begs the question of what's the benefit of assembly other
>than the speed advantage?

        It needs to be clarified whether the requirement is to teach
        the students _algorithmics_, or the _architecture_ of computing
        machines.

        If the target is algorithmics then any language is ok, and a
        HLL is probably better.

        If the target is architecture then you've got to get down to
        the iron, and assembly is necessary.

___Bob