Learning Computers And Science?

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Assembly is awesome! Pretty complex but very fun! I started learning NASM for Linux about 6 or so months ago.

The biggest program I wrote so far was to take user input and display what they typed lol lame right?

NASM? Whats that?

You have to resign yourself to the knowledge that you'll never fully understand everything about computers - there's just too much information there. All my learning comes from a point of "need" - i.e. I have something that I want to accomplish that requires me to know X, so I do a deep dive into that until I understand what I'm after. I've been doing that for 10+ years and I've compiled a pretty wide breadth of knowledge, but every time I learn something new, I end up coming away with more questions than answers.

Having said that, there are plenty of extremely intelligent people here that can probably answer any question you have - but you have to know what you're asking first. General rules for good questions are: as specific as possible, with as much context as possible, and demonstrate in the question what you already know about the topic (including what steps you've taken on your own to find the answer).

As for your specific question, NASM is an open-source assembler: http://www.nasm.us/xdoc/2.10.05/html/na ... ection-1.1

Yes I have come to the conclusion that a computer is just a big scientific calculator that takes it input in strings of numbers/information and translates it into what is understood as pure English.*

So I want to understand how HTTP works. I already know I can use notepad, and save it as a file, and this looks like a weblink on my desktop(depending on where I send the file to when I save it). I try with the "webpage I created(really a file)" but I cant post it anywhere without an error. I want to know what am I doing wrong to get this error? (Am I missing a step from creating a notepad file to making it a webpage?)
And I want to know how the computer knows the commands to make the "webpage" I tried to make?(ALL the processes*, sorry Im a nerdette )
Does that make sense?

What's the error? How are you trying to post it?

HTTP will download a page over the internet (that's why browsers use it). If you make a webpage in notepad, to view it just save it as .htm and open it with your browser.

If it's to another page you've made in the same folder, just use the target page's name (for example, if you have a folder with alice.htm and bob.htm, to link from alice to bob, the href in the link is "bob.htm"

Notepad shouldn't be used for anything other than quick notes anyway. It's feature set is not exactly made for developers.

Take a look at this one instead: Notepad++