Assembly Language for X86 Processors

Assembly language is a tough topic, and requires thinking in different ways than you might be used to (doing math in binary and hexidecimal, and converting between these and decimal). You need to work with registers and memory in very low level ways. This book doesn't make the topic fun or easy, but it does make it very clear and learnable. The book is arranged in a logical progression of topics, and each chapter breaks the topics down in very clear and understandable ways. The material is formatted nicely for going back and referencing material. The end of chapter questions and exercises are very helpful and useful.Writing assembly language? I give one star. But considering it is a necessary evil of a university computer science program, I accept it. The book gets 5 stars for making it tolerable. Oh - and doing math in binary and hexidecimal? I give that 5 stars! When you first see it, it looks like learning Chinese. But once you understand it, it's very logical and interesting. And then when you explain how it works to a non-techie friend, you sound like you're visiting here from outer space!

Very good book and not too expensive to rent. It explains most things in assembly clearly and the author’s files helped create programs. Good book if your class requires it.

I was required by my university to take a class on assembly programming, and this was the book for the course. Overall, the book does a great job explaining concepts to beginners, though in some parts it can get a bit tedious. Has examples of application all throughout, as well as practice problems for each section and chapter. Only complaint is that some chapters got *very* focused on using the book's library (that wouldn't be used in practice), and didn't really talk about "best practices" for assembly language programming.Overall though, I would recommend this book!

I don't usually read books that are required for classes, especially technical ones since there's so much information online; however, this author provides resources that make it very easy to follow along and learn what's being taught. If you are new to assembly language, I definitely recommend this book.

This was a pleasant walk through the fundamentals of Assembly programming. I only wish it handled more than just MASM, but if I wanted that, I would have bought another book.

I purchased this as a textbook for a college course. As I was already familiar with x86 assembly, I found the book easy to follow. The author's website, while primitive, is a nice companion to the book. The fact that you can use the Microsoft tools with his examples is a big plus. I would have given four stars, but for the price.

I used this instead of the latest edition in my assembly language class. It is almost the same, minus one chapter about stuff my class didn't cover anyway. Price was reasonable.

Although Assembly Language is generally pretty tough to master, this book is honestly well written and easy to read. I like it.