The Art of Assembly Language (2010)

I have (had? Looking at my bookshelf I can't find, maybe I tossed it?) a hardcopy of this book. The information in it is well written, however... The use of "HLA" (High Level Assembly) is a real turn off, at least for me. Really wish this book was targeting standard vendor compilers instead.

I read the first edition at the time and was excited for the new one when it was released but the HLA stuff killed it for me. It was like spending time learning a worse C that would never be used anywhere and wasn't improving my knowledge of Assembly itself.

I loved to do little assembly patches to modify <i>any exe&#x2F;app</i> to my desire (e.g. disable certain notifications&#x2F;popups , add lifes, change values etc). Unfortunately with code signing this joy is no longer part of my pastime.<p>I&#x27;m not interested in optimizing the last microsecond of my programs so for normal development it has exactly 0 relevance.

This sort of manual has since been gamified by Zachtronics, and I think it is genuinely a better alternative. If you are trying to pick up the basics of programming assembly and are already committed to use a &quot;fake&quot; language, why not enjoy the experience as a video game?<p>And it does not help that this page starts with a dick joke.

Just go read &quot;Learn to Program with Assembly: Foundational Learning for New Programmers&quot;, it&#x27;s modern (x64), beginner friendly, and well written in my opinion.

That&#x27;s not assembly language, that&#x27;s a less powerful version of C.<p>If you&#x27;re going this route, you might as well learn LLVM.

Perhaps it&#x27;s safe to say HLA is practically abandoned.<p>I bought the book many years ago, and yes I think it&#x27;s better suited for compiler devs (HLA compiler still need assemblers like MASM, FASM etc to build the executables), and not for someone learning assembly programming basics.

Unfortunately, he did not move to x64.

Can i have a docker environment with asm to run the code in this book ?