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Title: What are the pre-requisites...
Post by: abuza on September 18, 2009, 05:11:59 PM
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
Title: Re: What are the pre-requisites...
Post by: hutch-- on September 18, 2009, 07:45:06 PM
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.
Title: Re: What are the pre-requisites...
Post by: abuza on September 18, 2009, 08:34:58 PM
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But dont laugh please - I know the outdated dbase3+ and foxpro, have a little knowledge of c and c++ and vb.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.
Title: Re: What are the pre-requisites...
Post by: hutch-- on September 18, 2009, 09:29:35 PM
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.
Title: Re: What are the pre-requisites...
Post by: BATSoftware on September 21, 2009, 09:48:15 PM
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.