You might have heard the terms "assembly language" and "machine code" but what do they mean? Let's find out.

Assembly language is a text representation of the machine code your CPU executes I’m no stranger to assembly languages, but I’m not sure I know a modern and defensible answer to this question.

You want to learn assembly language. After all, understanding assembly unlocks the ability to understand what compilers are doing and it is especially important for time-critical code. But most ...