The Story of Mel (1983)
In 1997 I was doing an apprenticeship. It had a very well organized curriculum and well thought courses. One course was based on 8080/8085 cpu. You know what they gave us: A development board (roughly the size of a modern mainboard) with onboard hex keyboard 0-9a-f and 3-4 function keys (halt, run, write at ... something like that). And a book and templated paper. So the exercises, 3-4 hours every week, were: Implement that algorithm on paper in assembler, use the book to translate to hex code on your memory layout, hack the program into your board and press execute. And PRAY that you did not make a mistake in the assembler or the typing.I still think, that this is the most efficient way to teach kids CPU/Memory and assembler.