Hello everyone!

[DavidZiegler]

Hi!
I just started learning assembly. I found your awesome forum and signed up.
I know java (from school) but i'm completely new to assembly.
I'm reading The Art of Assembly by Rendell Hyde and another book by jeff haung.
can you give me any advice on how should i learn this properly

David Ziegler

[CommonTater]

Hi!
I just started learning assembly. I found your awesome forum and signed up.
I know java (from school) but i'm completely new to assembly.
I'm reading The Art of Assembly by Rendell Hyde and another book by jeff haung.
can you give me any advice on how should i learn this properly

David Ziegler

Hi David...
I'm also a relative newbie in ASM ... Haven't even written my first program yet... But I've been programming for a pretty long time in C, Pascal and Basic, so, if that counts for anything....

I would strongly suggest you approach this as a totally new learning experience.  Don't try to compare it to Java, as many do when learning C or C++. It's a mistake there and it's a bigger mistake here. This is *different*, approach it as such. 

Make it a challenge and I'm betting you do just fine.

[Vortex]

Hi DavidZiegler,

Welcome to the forum.

[dedndave]

hi David
good first name - can't be all bad   :P

install the masm32 package, for starters
you will find links in the upper right corner of the forum page
read the installation page before installing
there are a lot of example programs, help files, and a couple tutorials

a lot of people get going with Iczelion's tutorial, but it could use a little update

welcome to the forum   :t

[jj2007]

can you give me any advice on how should i learn this properly

Hi David,
"by doing" would be my advice. Save this snippet as MyFirst.asm:

include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc

.code
AppName   db "Masm32:", 0

start:   MsgBox 0, "Hello World", addr AppName, MB_OK
   exit

end start

Build & run it (qEditor is fine), clap your shoulder, and then download and install Olly to see what's going on under the hood. The F8 key will be your friend.

Once you are operational, go back to Randy's book and start experimenting with the opcodes mov, add, sub, mul, jmp, ...

\Masm32\help\* is also a fascinating folder full of surprises ;-)

Welcome to the forum :icon14:

[Magnum]

Welcome to our world where we try to make it "smaller and faster."

At some point you'll want this help file.

Windows API help file    win32api.zip

http://www.carabez.com/downloads.html

Andy

[Gunther]

Hi DavidZiegler,

welcome to the forum.  :t

Gunther

[DavidZiegler]

thanks everyone! i'm off to work  :t

[Force]

Iczelion's Tutorials

http://www.woodmann.com/RCE-CD-SITES/Iczelion/index.html