yeah the marketing is too traditional!, but hey it didn't mention "become the next programming rockstar" :-)
But I mean, if it is a walkthrough then for people interested in the JVM it could be useful.
But I mean, if it is a walkthrough then for people interested in the JVM it could be useful.
While learning how to use ASM you will also learn about the instruction set of the JVM. It also includes a disassembler that, given a .class file, outputs the java code necessary to generate that class using ASM.
That's an interesting observation, touching on the education discussion - that the bottleneck in advancing individual learning/human knowledge questions is still that of finding someone who knows the answer. Universities provide one solution by creating a "critical mass" of smart people nearby that you can go to for advice. And although maybe my academic network is lacking, I couldn't quite get the same quality of advice reaching out personally as what you gave. StackOverflow and news.YC help [1], but didn't quite give me the solution I was looking for either (until now).
If I was convinced I could consistently good advice from a service, I'd pay well for it - upwards of a thousand dollars a year, I'd imagine.