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The Art of Assembly Language Review by ueberhund
This is a pretty cool book
This is a pretty cool book. Let's face it, if you've ever debugged a program, chances are that you've come across assembly language. Unless you program in assembly professionally, chances are you've forgotten everything you learned in that assembly language class in college. In addition, most programmers today are a lot more comfortable in higher-level languages, like C++, Java, or .NET. This book attempts to bridge the gap between assembly and modern languages by introducing assembly language through the HLA (High Level Assembly) program. Through this language, high-level programming concepts are broken down into their assembly counterpart, making the transition to learning assembly language a lot easier.
While the programs you write in the first few chapters look more like C than they do assembly, the author quickly dives deeper into assembly as the book progresses. Each chapter essentially introduces a new basic programming concept--from arithmetic in assembly, to data types and control structures, to bit manipulation. By the end of the book, you'll be pretty familiar with the HLA program, and hence a lot more familiar with assembly language.
If you're looking for something that teaches pure assembly language, minus any sort of HLA program, then this may not be the book for you. But if you're a programmer looking for an easy way to tread into the world of assembly language, I'd highly recommend this book. As with the other excellent No Start Press titles, it's a comprehensive introduction to this very old programming language.