"My flat-out favorite book of 2003 was Randall Hyde's
The Art of Assembly Language."
- Software Developer Times
"You would be hard-pressed to find a better book on assembly out there."
- Security-Forums.com
"If you want to use assembly language, or add it to your list of programming skills, this is the book to have."
- Book News (Australia)
"The text is well authored and easy to understand. The tutorials are thoroughly explained, and the example code segments are superbly commented."
- TechIMO
Customer Reviews & Comments
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.
