Here is a message I posted last summer asking for an
educational category. I'm reposting in response to
the recent request for such posts.
I'm new to PAUSE posting. When reading the script
upload example, I saw the category of fun/educational.
I have two questions about that.
1. Do these categories exist?
2. Does the slash mean two seperate categories?
Here's what I would like to submit:
A script which simulates assembly language for
teachers who want to teach a little assembly language
programming without having to use a full blown
assembler. Mine is in Perl so it even crosses
platforms.
Since I see no educational category on the actual CPAN
index, I'm assuming there is no such category. I
would like to suggest that we create one.
The script in question implements a simple 20
statement assembler which has some of the flavor of
assembly without requiring an intense semester's work
to write complete programs. I'm teaching occasionally
now and find that colleges don't require assembly any
more. That's not a big loss to the resume, but no
knowledge of addressing modes and hand rolled arrays
seems a pity to me. With the small assembler I can
give a two week unit on assembly. This explains
arrays and computing with binary operations. The idea
is to build intuition and understanding.
Let me know what you think.
Phil Crow
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