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Title: Weird Book!
Review: I dont know how to rate this book! It's one of the oddest computer books I've read, and not really in a good way.The first 150 pages explain how to use the NASM editor in excruciating detail. Not things like how to code macros or map segment addresses... no, things like, how the Backspace key differs from Delete.Surely, if you are buying a book about Assembler programming, you can be assumed to understand how a computer keyboard works?The parts that DO talk about segment addressing and so on are well written though, and the latter half of the book is not bad at all. So, I mentally tore off the front chunk of the book and gave it a good if somewhat perplexed rating.One other irritating thing is the author's apparent obsession with Pascal. Our past experiences will naturally colour our future ones but I felt this book went too far in constantly relating everything back to the author's pet language.
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