A Dissapointment

I started a personal campaign to teach myself assembly language, and searched out books that might help. I bought this book because I own a number of "Step-By-Step" books and the blurb sounded good. Unfortunatly, it turned out to be a dissapointment.

The author prides himself on the fact that he uses an "unusual" method to teach a hard subject, and equally proud that he will not do a "complete" job. And then proceeds to work on chapter after chapter of thin analogy without actually getting to real assembly programming. Now I'm all for "unusual" methods of teaching, but only when they actually work. Reading this book left me more confused than ever.

And of course, to top it off, it's about 10 years old.

I really hate to spend more time on this book, but I wanted to express at least a little bit of my opinion. If I would recommend a book, this other one is worth the money. I even found out that ASU uses it as a textbook, and it's cheaper on amazon.

Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers (5th Edition)

Additionally, I'd do a google search for winasm, radasm and masm32. All three have wonderful forums to help people learn how to create assembly programs.

Other Reviews

• Brilliant Book
• Excellent Beginner Assembly Language Book
• A Dissapointment
• THIS BOOK SHOULD BE TITLE "PRE-ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE" !!!
• First 150 pages rambling, without a hint on the real thing.