What are the pre-requisites...

[abuza]

Hello everyone...

I'm a would-be assembly programmer and would like to know what are the basic pre-requisites that one must have before starting the study of assembly language programming?

Thanks

[hutch--]

Perhaps if you told us a bit more about what you know how to do in the programming field, we would have some chance of respopnding with a useful answer but at the moment there is nothing to go on.

[abuza]

Sure...

But dont laugh please - I know the outdated dbase3+ and foxpro, have a little knowledge of c and c++ and vb. I did a little java on the side too.

[hutch--]

You will find the C/C++ is probably the most use to you if you have tasks that you want to write in assembler. The action is understanding addressing which is common in C, to a lesser degree in C++ and only occasionally in softer high level languages.

[BATSoftware]

Dig up a college-level used text book on the internet or your library and start there. The older the book, the better it is. Older books tend to treat assembly programming as a requist to being a software engineer, while newer books are a bunch of useless fluff.