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excerpt: "Ever thought about learning to program in machine code? Maybe you have. Maybe you even got far enough to open one of those thick books full of jargon and technical details. Maybe you got far enough into it to be scared away."
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# As Easy as 2+2

Ever thought about learning to program in machine code? Maybe you have. Maybe you even got far enough to open one of those thick books full of jargon and technical details. Maybe you got far enough into it to be scared away.