Good assembly tutorial

[c0mput3r_n3rD]

Does any body know of a good nasm tutorials/free online books that goes past hello world, labels, and command line arguements. If possible, the learning tool should be in-depth, descriptive, and explain everything as though you have no assembly experience (as I really don't).

Thank you all.

[gil_johnson]

n3rD,
I started on assembly language by reading all the entries I
could find in Wikipedia, for instance: Netwide Assembler (NASM);
x86; x86 assembly language; Comparison of assemblers.

Wikibooks has a book on x86 Assembly with a section on NASM,
and I would recommend Randall Hyde's "Art of Assembly Language"
which is available online at: www.artofasm.com/index.html

I am looking forward to getting Jeff Duntemann's book on Linux
programming with NASM, which Amazon will be selling soon, for
$40.95. I know you said "free" but this book is probably
exactly what you want. Will your library system let you request
a book?

Assembly Language Step-by-Step:
Programming with Linux, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 978-0-470-49702-9
Paperback
648 pages
October 2009

Good luck - gil_johnson

[Can+~]

As I mentioned before (a few threads before), I learnt SPIM, not only because it's easier to run (with an emulator), but also because the amount of information available for free.

I uploaded two files to my dropbox:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/850314/static/spimdoc.pdf (Spim emulator reference)
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/850314/static/spiminst.pdf (Instruction set)

Others:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~ellard/Courses/cs50-asm.pdf (Extensive tutorial)

https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~waldroj/itral/spim_ref.html (Quick Reference)
http://www.cs.uic.edu/~troy/spring03/cs366/mp3.html (Another Reference)
http://logos.cs.uic.edu/366/notes/MIPS%20Quick%20Tutorial.htm (Short Tutorial)

I also started with NASM, but I realized I was wasting time, I just wanted to learn it, not use it to build an actual useful program. You can get the idea with an emulator, in a safer, more controlled environment.

[j7%<RmUg]

Thanks for the links, iv been wanting to learn assembly for a while now, mainly to start off with OSDev.

[c0mput3r_n3rD]

Thank you guys for the recommendations. I'm getting tired of just printing strings, taking command line arguments and just popping them off the stack, and making making labels to do that with; I have some real useful programs so far ;). gil, that book looks good off of amazon.com, I will try to get it! The only problem is that I have to pay $120 for a winblows assembly text book for college, and that wont leave me much money left :-\.

If any body has any more suggestions/resources please, feel free to post them here!

[rCXer]

A quick intro to nasm in linux
http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~if817/arquivos/asmtut/index.html

[gil_johnson]

n3rD (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=865844),
I just got Jeff Duntemann's book "Assembly Language Step by Step"
When he says step by step, he means it - he starts out with baby steps - What is a program?, binary and hexadecimal notation, etc. It is a good book, and fills in a lot of background I only sort-of knew.
If you are already writing in assembly it would be worth going through, but it's not a reference book to keep.
Good luck, Gil

(Note added later)
I think this book has paid for itself by directing me to:
http//:linuxasmtools.net/
Gil

[dips0502]

The second edition of this book had a pdf version as well. Can you guys tell me if the 3rd edition has a pdf version as well ?