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Title: Beginners beware
Review: I'm taking assembly language as part of my CS courses. If you need to learn assembly language don't buy this book. The author doesn't even touch assembly language until chapter 7!Chap 1, a high level overview but not very informativeChap 2, base numbering systems, a waste of 30 pagesChap 3, a basic computer architecture review, another waste of 30 pagesChap 4, Covers text editors, dos files, and other basic junk, more wasted pages.Chap 5, 30 pages to cover the freakin NASM-IDE tool that comes with the book. It's a freakin dos editor for pete's sake. A waste of 40 pages.Chap 6, 40 pages to cover memory architecture, boring. Have we coded yet? Nope!Chap 7 Finally he covers the assembly language syntax.Chap 8 - 11, Actually covers assembly language programs, but the examples are lame.Chap 12 -13 is coding for Linux, about 200 pagesMy advice if your professor sticks you with this book is to search the web or buy another book.
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