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There is a significant portion of developers ( particular web and app ) and IT staff who never studied computer science in college but instead moved into programming/IT mid career. Most of them probably never heard of or seen assembly code.

However, I would be shocked if anyone who went through a CS program wasn't aware of assembly programming.

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CS tends to be algorithms not low level programming. Unlike say robotics or electronics.

Even so, don't most CS departments have an assembly class? Or maybe get introduced to it in a Computer Architecture class?

CS usually includes classes on compilers, at least that's where I learnt some assembly

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