> The secondary school mentoring programme I'm part of, in a modest way, > indicates to me that kids now are using PICAXE, Arduino and Raspberry Pi, > and pretty much have no idea what machine language is. I think many of > them would regard low-level programming of micros, as we HAD to do back > then, as either too hard or unnecessary.=20 I know that I carved a little niche for myself because I know the electroni= cs, and had an underlying knowledge of machine language that I could do all= sorts of nifty bits the programmers couldn't handle. --=20 Scanned by iCritical. --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .