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Doggsi

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Registered: 2009-06-11

Posts: 6

Learn Assembly Language

When is a good time to learn Assembly language? Is it after adapting to *nix and shell scripting, learning to program in C, or is there not really an order to picking up the language of Assembly?

Please let me know. This is important. I will pick it up sooner or later.

Toolz

#! Die Hard

From: Asia

Registered: 2009-02-02

Posts: 937

Re: Learn Assembly Language

While you're young.

It has little to do with *nix and shell scripting and I learned assembly without ever becoming proficient in C. Just play with some other language first - even if it's basic or pascal.

Doggsi

New Member

Registered: 2009-06-11

Posts: 6

Re: Learn Assembly Language

Yeah. I was thinking it has little to do with *nix. As I read more about it, It became apparent that getting used to Linux is a must if I want to write drivers for *nix with assembly. First, I need to become proficient with the O/S first. Then I'll be off to learning C afterward, and not C before Assembly.

How does that sound? :-\

moralfallacy

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From: Quantumly entangled

Registered: 2009-06-25

Posts: 28

Re: Learn Assembly Language

I'd say the most important part of learning assembly is acquiring an intimate knowledge of hardware interplay.
It's rather beautiful, how all pieces of the hardware interact.

I never found prior high level knowledge helpful when learning assembly, it's another beast entirely.

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