Art Of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition

Presents an introduction to High Level Assembler, covering such topics as editing, compiling, and running HLA programs; declaring and using constants; translating arithmetic expressions; and converting high-level control structures.
This plain-English introduction to 32-bitx86 assembly language is for beginning programmers and non-assembly programmers with high-level language experience. The book's primary teaching tool, High Level Assembler (HLA), incorporates many of the features found in high-level languages to help readers grasp basic assembly concepts, allowing beginning assembly programmers to work with familiar syntax. Coverage includes how to edit, compile, and run HLA programs, how to declare and use constants, scalar variables, and arrays, and how to translate arithmetic expressions. This second edition has been updated to reflect recent changes to HLA and to support Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. Hyde has taught at the University of California-Riverside. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Assembly is a low-level programming language, one step above hardware’s native machine language. Assembly code is small, fast, and reliable. While assembly is not as popular as a daily programming language as high-level languages like C or Python, it is widely used for writing device drivers, embedded systems, viruses, and for programs that require real-time responses such as flight navigation systems. A working knowledge of assembly is key to successful reverse engineering and hacking of all kinds.
The Art of Assembly Language is one of those classic texts that comes around only every once in a while. Widely respected by hackers of all kinds, it teaches programmers how to understand assembly language and how to use it to write powerful, efficient code. Using the proven High Level Assembler (HLA) as its primary teaching tool, The Art of Assembly Language leverages readers' knowledge of high level programming languages to make it easier for readers to quickly grasp basic concepts. Among the most comprehensive references to assembly language every published, The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent changes to the HLA language. All code from the book is portable to the Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD operating systems.