Assembly Language

the_hutch

Any recommendations for good resources to learn Assembly? Thanks

RobertKaucher

VTC has a course on it. For books, I suggest the Art of Assembly Language. When I read this it was to get a really strong foundation in very low-level Windows debugging. I had no intention of actually programming in Assembly.

dmoore44

I'll second The Art of Assembly Language - I've got a copy that I've been reading through. It's pretty well written and provides a nice foundation. You can also get a pretty good deal on the ebook + physical book at the No Starch site.

paul78

One way to learn assembly and have some fun while doing it is to learn an abstract assembly language called Redcode. It is used to create warriors (essentially viruses/bots) which are then run in a simulated computer memory core to fight other assembly programs.

I took a class in college where the final grade was based on how well your program defeated other programs. In an advanced class, that I took, we were allowed to "****" and rewrite the assembly language using the simulated CPU microcode to optimize it.

See here for details - KOTH.org - the pMARS homepage

Xcluziv

I haven't written Assembly Language code since school...that was one language that was crazy just to do one thing

dbrink

I agree with all of the above and you should also check out Security Tube's Videos. They have a Linux and Windows primer.