Publisher: Prentice Hall
Authors: Kip R. Irvine
List Price: $97.00
Amazon Price: $85.46
Usually ships in 24 hours
Reviews:
Summary: A nice book
I used the fourth edition for a Computer Architecture course. I really enjoyed this book at the time, though I must admit I did not read it from cover to cover - I only read the stuff I needed when it came time to do the assignments. I found the information in the book quite easily, so maybe the organization was changed when going from third edition to fourth edition. If you're interested, I would recommend checking it out, it's not nearly as bad as some reviewers claim.
Summary: Definitely useful book
There is not such thing as "all-in-one" book. This book is not exception. But you will enjoy it, thanks to the author. For pretty coding style, for IA-32 protected mode examples, for high-level assembly features introduced and more.
Not at last, the book is well organized textbook and suitable for intermediate level assembly and computer architecture courses.
You can begin develop your own protected mode assembly code with this book and Negatory Assembly Studio as well in hands.
Summary: Great introduction to assembly
A very competent introduction to assembly programming, regardless of the platform, but great because it can probably be used with your personal computer. After a quick install off the included CD, you'll be coding and assembling your own programs in no time.
A background with digital systems is helpful - I am a computer engineering student, and I was already more than familiar with two's complement, AND, OR, and other logical operations. These topics, working with binary, are essential to assembly. However, though the book uses them a lot, it also explains them at the beginning, so pay attention.
It's very interesting all the Windows-specific things it covers: the author doesn't neglect the fact that Microsoft's assembler is by far the most used PC assembler out there, and goes into lots of MASM-specific topics. What's great, however, is that amongst the platform-specific ideas are general ideas that will work well in any assembly situation; that's an advantage of assembly, that it's so low-level it's very similar on different platforms.
I took an embedded systems class after taking the class that used this book. I felt very confident in my assembly ability, even though the embedded systems class was not using Intel processors, but PIC processors from Microchip.
By the way... I wonder if most textbooks are rated according to a student's experience in the class. Did the guy who rate this book down very low simply have a bad teacher who was really hard on his class, and then looked for problems with the book? Personally, I didn't find the lack of a debugger that bad, since I was understanding assembly pretty quickly right off the bat thanks to this book and my teacher's clear explanations.
Summary:
,
amazon.co.uk
,
google.com
