REAL newbies should use assembler.
no no no
push the logic!
newbies should start with a barrel organ, and let us throw some candy to their dressed monkeys...
Let us also aplaud, when the pieces of music are encoded the right way with bitholes, onto wooden barrels (or cylinders), which are analogous.
be patient! next step is a
texas instruments SR-52
2 centuries after newbies got solid basis