Author: Randall Hyde Publisher: No Starch Press, 2010 (2nd
Edition) Aimed at: Beginners Pros: A good introduction to the
HLA dialect Cons: It introduces HLA rather than raw assembler
Reviewed by: Harry Fairhead If you have always wanted to learn
assembly language then this book might be just what you have
been looking for but you need to know exactly what it is all
about to make a decision. This is a book that stirs a
controversy. The big problem is that it is a beginner's book on
assembly language. Now when you are a beginner you probably
don't know exactly what assembly language is or quite what you
should be learning and this book is about a dialect of assembly
language called HLA - High Level Assembly - which was invented
by the author to make teaching assembler easier. It is open
source and can be downloaded for use with the book for both
Windows and Linux. This is a good idea but it also has its
problems. After all if you want to learn assembler why learn HLA
instead? The whole issue comes down to the q