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@@ -31,15 +31,17 @@ decimal.
- what a CPU is
- what a CPU architecture is
- what a CPU register is
-- what a pointer is
- bits, bytes, kilobytes, etc.
- bitwise operations (not, or, and, xor, left shift, right shift)
- 2's complement
- null-terminated strings
+- how pointers work
- how floating-point numbers work
- maybe some basic Intel-style x86-64 assembly (you can probably pick it up on
the way though)
+It will help you a lot to know how to program (with any programming language),
+but it's not strictly necessary.
## instruction set