Guide To Assembly Language A Concise Introduction - James T. Streib

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 Simplied Register Usage, Simplied Inputoutput 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.