
Reminds me of first computer related course that I took...
(over 40 years ago). So that we would appreciate what an assembler did for us, in the first lab assignment, we had to write the machine code w/o instruction mnemonics but as constants. Imagine, if you will, line after line of octal constants. For one thing, it made you realize the mnemonics were somewhat arbitrary.
Alex
"I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. -- Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)