1) I've had quite a lot of C programming experience with previous courses, and I believe I'm quite good and comfortable with C programming. I don't have any experience with ARM assembly, however, I did do some assembly programming in a few courses and did quite OK.

2) With that said, I'd say my low level programming experience to be somewhere between newbie to intermediate. But hey, I do consider myself to be a fast learner and I'm willing to learn .