The art of Assembly language

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1. sathish316Feb 2026
   Read the following books:

   * SICP - Structure and Interpretation of Computer programs

   * AOA - Art of Assembly language programming

   * Hello Python - Think like a computer scientist

   * The C Programming language - Kernigham and Richie

   * Pick one more favourite language and a book in it - Rust, Golang, Scala, Java, Ruby, Python, Typescript etc

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2. alberto-mFeb 2025
   From my brief experience, it seems that reversing old games is one of those disciplines where there is no good step-by-step course. One can start learning some theory (I did so by reading “The Art of Assembly Language Programming” – if I had more time, I'd try “Reverse Engineering for Beginners”) but then one has to get his hands dirty. Real-life games are typically not simple, but one usually just needs to reverse some small parts to produce new interesting modifications.

   But surely reading tutorials is useful to learn techniques and tricks. I recommend this article to start: https://www.lodsb.com/reversing-lz91-from-commander-keen (not totally for beginners, but very friendly, and it can help to get used with the jargon). I am also publishing war stories on this topic on my blog (marnetto.net).

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3. fuzztesterJan 2025
   Check out assembly language books by Randall Hyde and Paul Carter, two authors of two different books on the topic.

   Search for:

   The Art of Assembly Language by Randall Hyde

   Carter book:

   http://pacman128.github.io/pcasm/

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4. t-3Apr 2024
   I like this book, it's just as good as The Art of Assembly Language, but much cheaper: https://rayseyfarth.com/asm/index.html

   If you are interested in ARM or RISC-V assembly, the concepts are pretty similar but the instructions are different. For any architecture, you're going to have to read the architecture manuals to get a good working knowledge of the instructions and how to use them. An easy way to get started is to write a program in C, then replace the functions with assembly code one by one until your C code is just main() and a header.

   ARMv7: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/100076/0200/a32-t32-...

   ARMv8: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0602/2024-03/Base...

   alternative: https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~zyedidia/arm64/

   RISC-V: https://riscv.org/technical/specifications/

   x86: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

   web format: http://x86.dapsen.com/

   If you like to learn by example (most of these are not great, but good enough to get started):

   https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Assembly

   https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/AArch64_Assembly

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5. lithiumheadJan 2022
   The Art of Assembly Language https://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/
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6. westurnerJul 2020
   High Level Assembly (HLA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Assembly

   > HLA was originally conceived as a tool to teach assembly language programming at the college-university level. The goal is to leverage students' existing programming knowledge when learning assembly language to get them up to speed as fast as possible. Most students taking an assembly language programming course have already been introduced to high-level control flow structures, such as IF, WHILE, FOR, etc. HLA allows students to immediately apply that programming knowledge to assembly language coding early in their course, allowing them to master other prerequisite subjects in assembly before learning how to code low-level forms of these control structures. The book The Art of Assembly Language Programming by Randall Hyde uses HLA for this purpose

   Web: https://plantation-productions.com/Webster/

   Book: "The Art of Assembly Language Programming" https://plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm.com/

   Portable, Opensource, IA-32, Standard Library: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hla-stdlib/

   "12.4 Programming in C/C++ and HLA" in the Linux 32 bit edition: https://plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm.com/...

   ... A chapter(s) about wider registers, WASM, and LLVM bitcode etc might be useful?

   ... Many awesome lists link to OllyDbg and other great resources for ASM; like such as ghidra: https://www.google.com/search?q=ollydbg+site%3Agithub.com+in...

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