Structured Programming in Assembly Language for the IBM PC and PS/2

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Summary: I have not read this book
Review: I have not actually read this this book, but it is probably good or no one would publish it

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Summary: Poop
Review: This book is terrible if you are a beginner assembler programmer. It is impossible to follow and way to detailed on things that you don't need to know, yet it brushes over things you should know. Unless you plan on building a computer from scratch don't get this book. You won't understand it at all and it won't help you if youre using it for school.

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Summary: Very informative.
Review: We used this book in our college assembly language class. (If you have trouble finding this book, get it at a junior college bookstore.) I found it very useful, but might be difficult for a person who hasn't programmed in assembly language before. (For the rank beginner, Robert Lafore's Assembly Language Primer for the IBM PC and XT, circa 1984, is very easy reading - find it at a library, it may be out of print now.) Runnion's book has information on 32-bit instructions, as well as BCD (big integer) algorithms. The appendices give the syntax for most of the Intel x86 instructions (16-bit as well as 32-bit). Nothing on Windows programming though - all examples run in a DOS window.

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Summary: Very informative.
Review: We used this book in our college assembly language class. (If you have trouble finding this book, get it at a junior college bookstore.) I found it very useful, but might be difficult for a person who hasn't programmed in assembly language before. (For the rank beginner, Robert Lafore's Assembly Language Primer for the IBM PC and XT, circa 1984, is very easy reading - find it at a library, it may be out of print now.) Runnion's book has information on 32-bit instructions, as well as BCD (big integer) algorithms. The appendices give the syntax for most of the Intel x86 instructions (16-bit as well as 32-bit). Nothing on Windows programming though - all examples run in a DOS window.