Assembly Errors & Edge Cases
Errors & Edge Cases for Assembly: Writes the happy path well.
Who it is for
Writes the happy path well.
The behaviour people get wrong after they are already productive in the language.
You will get the most out of it if you have written Assembly recently enough to read it without effort, and have been surprised by it at least once. If you are picking the language up for the first time, start with Assembly Essentials and come back to this one.
It is also built for interview preparation: the questions are the ones that get asked because they separate people who have read the documentation from people who have hit the behaviour in production.
How long it takes
Planned at 90 graded questions, which is about 68 minutes of answering and roughly 18 days at five a day.
Nothing ships until every runnable snippet in it has been executed and matched against its answer.
Syllabus
What you will be asked about
This course is in production
It is planned as ten topics of ten questions, the same shape as every other course in the catalogue: one concept card, six multiple-choice questions, one predict-the-output, one ordering task and one matching task per topic. The topics themselves are mined from Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals, and nothing is listed here until the questions exist and have been executed — a syllabus written before the content is a promise, and this page only carries facts.
Free and paid courses are decided per course, not per language, and this one will be included in a subscription.
The rest of the track
Assembly at every depth
Assembly Essentials
Essentials for Assembly: Knows the syntax, not yet the behaviour.
Assembly Core
Core for Assembly: Works in it, has gaps.
Assembly Data & Collections
Data & Collections for Assembly: Comfortable, but surprised by how containers behave.
Assembly Standard Library
Standard Library for Assembly: Reaches for a dependency before the built-in.
Assembly Idioms & Pitfalls
Idioms & Pitfalls for Assembly: Fluent, writes it like another language.
Assembly Advanced
Advanced for Assembly: Confident; wants the traps.
Assembly Performance
Performance for Assembly: Has never measured anything.
Assembly Testing
Testing for Assembly: Tests the code they wrote, not the code they meant.
Assembly Interview Questions
Interview Questions for Assembly: Preparing, and short of time.
Assembly Errors & Edge Cases is being written
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Every track that is already live works the same way: five questions a day, mixed across the courses you have enrolled in.
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