I hope I am in the right place for such a question. I have this friend that wants to learn assembly. Does anyone know of a good start? A book maybe? My friend loves books. There seem to be lots of books about the subject but where should I… I mean my friend start.

Art of Assembly Language? (old DOS version)

Thank you for your promptness. Who is the author of that book? I don't know much about the subject but don't new processors have different instructions than older processors. Wouldn’t I be better off with something newer than dos?

Randall Hyde - google for "art of assembly". The whole book is available online, and also covers 32-bit stuff. You might want to check out www.madwizard.org too, it has some basic "32bit assembly in windows" introduction which is rather nice. For programming the windows API, http://win32asm.cjb.net (iczelion tutorials). A bunch of this is masm-centered, but the ideas and (of course) instructions should translate easily to fasm.

A good Nasm tutorial is www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm

You are really funny! I never get why people do the "my friend...." thing, especially when not related to a drug orsex addiction, but whatever!

download all assembly tutorial you find and let "him" browse them all

I don't really have a solution, BUT
because of my learning disability, I have to learn by doing.
Hence
http://bitdog.home.att.net/files/fasmenv.zip
http://bitdog.home.att.net/files/nasmenv.zip
for DOS beginners like me. (Go with Fasmenv........)
It's not complete or great, but git's ya started & might be understandable 2 sum ?

Sinseriously
............ Bitdog

PS, if applied properly......"Everything you know is wrong, BECAUSE,
some one in the past has done the same thing differently, AND
it's turned out better.

HOW TO APPLY
#1. never self distruct, but understand that there are different ways to solve the same problem. So look at all the available avenues before you leap..

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