Free Assembly Tutorials

[TcM]

I'm going to learn Assembly at school next January I think. hope it will be an interesting subject for coding lovers!

[v0id]

Assembly is a great language and really interesting, you shall really look forward to it, TheComputerMaster. Do you already know which assemblers you're going to use? I'm just curious...

[G_Morgan]

The most important thing with assembly is establish some conventions with how you use the various pieces of the architecture. Where are your returns going to be stored, what are you going to use different registers for, etc.

It's really not that difficult. Really it's like C with more book keeping involved (like the need to manually assign registers to variables or assign space on the stack if you have too many variables). I'd just write out your algorithms in pseudocode and then think about where everything goes.

[TcM]

Assembly is a great language and really interesting, you shall really look forward to it, TheComputerMaster. Do you already know which assemblers you're going to use? I'm just curious...

I have no idea. Do you think that makes a difference?

The most important thing with assembly is establish some conventions with how you use the various pieces of the architecture. Where are your returns going to be stored, what are you going to use different registers for, etc.

It's really not that difficult. Really it's like C with more book keeping involved (like the need to manually assign registers to variables or assign space on the stack if you have too many variables). I'd just write out your algorithms in pseudocode and then think about where everything goes.

I don't know any C or C++ or C# :s

[v0id]

I have no idea. Do you think that makes a difference?

Yes, it makes a difference.

First of all, there's the visual- and the functionality part of an assembler, which only affects the programmer. It's stuff like the syntax of the assembly come, the difficulty of using the assembler, features available, etc. Then there's the technical part. It's different what the different assemblers support, like operating system, architecture, etc. So you've to choose an assembler which fits your system.

[TcM]

When you say architecture, you mean the architecture of the CPU? something like, Intel, AMD, Mac.. or??

[v0id]

Yes, exactly.

[TcM]

Sorry for asking too much, but answer if you feel like it.

Why would that make difference, because of the Shift registers, ALU and that stuff? Or how it handles the data etc? (or are they the same things?)

So far our teacher told us only this, because we should start ASM in a few months.

[v0id]

The features of each architecture differs, they have different instruction sets, different ways of handling data, different kinds of modes, and so on.

To get a more detailed explanation, you should read about some specific architecture, and you'll learn a lot more. There's many different architectures, so you could pick some few, and go into details with them. But you'll probably learn a lot about all this, when you're starting at the assembly classes at school.

[TcM]

Thanks for your reply. I really appreciate it. Sounds quite difficult to me, let's hope I understand it...