"ssiverling" <ssiverl...@gmail.com> wrote
So I want to learn assembly. However, it can take a experienced C
programmer a year to learn assembly.
Dunno where you got that from.
An experienced C programmer should pick up assembler in a few days.
C is just "portable assembler" It is almost a textual replacement for
assembler.
All the different addressing modes of assembler - which confuse higher
order
language programmers - are all directly translateable into C pointers etc.
(Note, I'm talking about pure C, not C++, which is a very different
animal!)
thing I was reading is that alot of the tutorials assume prior
programming
Thats true of Python too, but there are a few asembler tutorials that still
assume zero programming. Unfortunately they do all need you to understand
the basics of how a computer is put together - arithmetic unit, memory,
registers, IO ports etc Assembler is inextricably tied to the machine.
One brilliant book if you can get it (via a library?) is "The Soul of CP/M"
Obviously way out of datae since its based on CP/M but the writing style
is brilliant and it teaches real world assembler - withh use of BIOS
functions
to read the keyboard etc and builds a usabletext editor by the end.
Some of the very early Peter Norton books are good too, aimed at DOS
and the original IBM PC.
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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