Streib J.T. Guide to Assembly Language: A Concise Introduction

2nd. ed. - Springer, 2020. - 350 p. - (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science). - ISBN: 3030356388.This concise guide is designed to enable the reader to learn how to program in assembly language as quickly as possible. Through a hands-on programming approach, readers will also learn about the architecture of the Intel processor, and the relationship between high-level and low-level languages. This updated second edition has been expanded with additional exercises, and enhanced with new material on floating-point numbers and 64-bit processing. Topics and features: provides guidance on simplified register usage, simplified input/output using C-like statements, and the use of high-level control structures; describes the implementation of control structures, without the use of high-level structures, and often with related C program code; illustrates concepts with one or more complete program; presents review summaries in each chapter, together with a variety of exercises, from short-answer questions to programming assignments; covers selection and iteration structures, logic, shift, arithmetic shift, rotate, and stack instructions, procedures and macros, arrays, and strings; includes an introduction to floating-point instructions and 64-bit processing; examines machine language from a discovery perspective, introducing the principles of computer organization.
A must-have resource for undergraduate students seeking to learn the fundamentals necessary to begin writing logically correct programs in a minimal amount of time, this work will serve as an ideal textbook for an assembly language course, or as a supplementary text for courses on computer organization and architecture. The presentation assumes prior knowledge of the basics of programming in a high-level language such as C, C++, or Java.Variables, Registers, and Data Movement.
Input/Output.
Arithmetic Instructions.
Selection Structures.
Iteration Structures.
Logic, Shifting, Rotating, and Stacks.
Procedures and Macros.
Arrays.
Strings.
Floating-Point Instructions.
64-Bit Processing.
Selected Machine Language Instructions.
Appendix A: Directions for MASM in Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition.
Appendix B: Binary, Hexadecimal, Logic, Arithmetic, and Data Representation.
Appendix C: Selected Assembly Language Instructions.
Appendix D: Answers to Selected Exercises.True PDF