The Art of Assembly Language (Paperback)

by Randall Hyde (Author) "This chapter is a "quick-start" chapter that lets you start writing basic assembly language programs as rapidly as possible..." (more)
Key Phrases: endtry statement, readonly section, compile time language, Standard Library, Hello World, Operation Figure (more...)

Editorial Reviews

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". . . well authored and easy to understand. The tutorials are thoroughly explained, and the example code segments is superbly commented" -- TechIMO.com, October 19, 2003

"A comprehensive manual-cum-tutorial. . . The author and publishers have done a good job of packing so much into this remarkable text." -- Major Keary Book News, 2004 no. 9

"You would be hard pressed to find a better book on assembly out there." -- Security Forums, January 2004

"a well-organized tutorial on assembly concepts" -- Jeff Duntemann, author of

"my flat-out favorite book of 2003 was Randall Hyde's The Art of Assembly Language" -- Larry O'Brien, SD Times, June 2004

Product Description
THE ART OF ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE is a practical and comprehensive guide to assembly language. It presents assembly language from the high-level programmer's point of view, allowing the reader to start writing meaningful assembly language programs immediately. The CDROM includes the High Level Assembler (HLA) tool and the HLA Standard Library, all the source code from the book, plus over 50,000 lines of additional sample code, all well-documented and tested.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 928 pages
• Publisher: No Starch Press; Pap/Cdr edition (September 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886411972
• ISBN-13: 978-1886411975
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #358,394 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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57 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for what it is., May 13, 2004

By	Sickness23 "anonymous coward A.C." (Antarctica) - See all my reviews

As another reviewer said, this book should be called "The Art of HIGH LEVEL Assembly Language." This is a great book. It is well written and has includes a CD-ROM chock full of good stuff. Problem is that if you want to use MASM, NASM, TASM or some other assembler that uses real ASM you will likely be confused as the HLA stuff that you learned from this book will not totally apply to traditional ASM. If you are wanting to learn ASM and eventually use NASM and other normal assemblers (ie: not HLA) then you might be better off with a book like "Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers (4th Edition)" by Kip R. Irvine or my favorite "Introduction to 80X86 Assembly Language and Computer Architecture" by Richard C. Detmer.

40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Who is this for?, August 31, 2004

By	Nick Veys (Midwest, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I grabbed this book looking for some interesting tidbits. I know a few RISC architectures asm, but never played w/x86, which is what I saw in the flipping through the book. Turns out I didn't flip through it nearly as much as I should have before buying it.

I didn't notice the whole book being geared towards a pseudo-assembly called HLA. High Level Assembly. Looks like x86, but isn't quite. Ok, my fault. So I read on and get a book using a teaching format I personally HATE. The "teach the wrong, but easy way first" then "teach the more correct way later and hope the reader doesn't remember the wrong way" approach. Ugh.

I'm not sure I would recommend this book to anyone. It's expensive and huge, when there are other more compact tomes to learn assembly from.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on HLA, November 10, 2004

By	Jack D. Herrington "engineer and author" (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This is truly amazing piece of work on High Level Assembly (HLA). It's important to know what you are getting is a book on HLA because the back cover says, "The most comprehensive guide to assembly language". Which is both hyperbole and factually slightly inaccurate. It's a very, very good book on an assembly language (HLA), but not all assembly languages. Nor should I think there would be a good book that covered all assembly languages, but that's beside the point.

There is some general value in the book that applies to almost any processor. The basics of registers, operations, pointers, the stack and other basics. But as you get deeper into the book it's clear that this is a work on HLA and HLA alone.