I’m only a hobbyist, but I do embedded programming, and knowing computer science concepts really helps when you’re bare-metal programming a teeny-tiny computer in say, a smart toaster.
Pointers and dereferences and how memory works, buffers, interrupts, how registers work, and perhaps even a little bit of assembly are still very useful things to know about in today’s world, just not on the web. But like damn near everything has little computers in it everywhere, even your TV remote. I bet the average home is filled with hundreds of these one-chip computers.
I’m only a hobbyist, but I do embedded programming, and knowing computer science concepts really helps when you’re bare-metal programming a teeny-tiny computer in say, a smart toaster.
Pointers and dereferences and how memory works, buffers, interrupts, how registers work, and perhaps even a little bit of assembly are still very useful things to know about in today’s world, just not on the web. But like damn near everything has little computers in it everywhere, even your TV remote. I bet the average home is filled with hundreds of these one-chip computers.
I bet you got that toaster to run DOOM didn’t you? 😏
I’ll settle for this ESP32 microcontroller I’m currently playing with to play variable-bitrate MP3s through a decoder chip without segfaulting.