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Assembly Language Step-by-step: Programming with DOS and Linux (with CD-ROM)

Format: Paperback
Author: Jeff Duntemann
ReleaseDate: 24 May, 2000
Publisher: Wiley
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Great Introduction to the Forgotten World of Assembly for Beginners
The author Duntemann has a clear, fresh, and very light writing style that's not loaded down with an overabundance of superfluous "geek-speak". Last semester, I checked this book out from our school library and absolutely fell in love with it - it's superb. Before delving into new concepts, Duntemann tries to get the reader to grasp, in a real world sense, how the concepts apply to the machine.

Considering that universities nowadays spew sizzling venom on the "difficult", "slow", and "forgotten" art of machine language, I've done my research by reading the opinions of what real programmers (who've worked in the industry probably longer than I've been alive) have to say about assembly language -- Every article or column I've read has convinced me that learning assembly language is not only a mechanism to speed up sections of your code, but it's a forgotten goody most programmers today lack, and if you're up to the challenge, coding in assembly is the perfect addition to your "bag of programmer's tricks".

Duntemann's book is perfect for beginners of assembly language, and I do mean beginners. Be forewarned, however: this book will NOT make you an assembly programming pro; it probably won't even knock you into the 'intermediate assembly coder' category, either. This book is a stepping stone to other more detailed books, and if nothing else, it teaches you how to THINK in assembly language, rather than learning the "nuts and bolts" of assembly. AN EXCELLENT BOOK.

Best Assembly Book
Programming is very difficult, but learning the basics is even harder. The author starts this book out very strangly, but once you get into it you find that his craziness is well deserved. It starts out helping a person understand the numbering system of computers and then moves on into the meat of Assembly Language.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has an assembly class or anyone who wants to learn how programming language like Java, C, C++ or others translate their code to instructions that the computer understands. Those instructions are in assembly and the other languages use assembly to assess computer parts to make everything work.

Most excellent assembly book
I would love to see this guy write a book on disassemmbling. This book is great for assembly language beginners and programmers, It could even help fill in missing information for experienced programmers. .