On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:34 PM, James Hozier <guitars...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have to learn ASM anyway (to learn about buffer overflows and other related > topics in the family of memory-related security). Would there be any > advantage to learning Assembly first or would that just be an unneccessary > headache? >
As a major fan of ansi C I am having a lot of fun going through this book: http://nostarch.com/assembly2.htm This book has done very well so far in exposing layers of Assembly Language gradually. The trick is that the author has written his own HLA front-end. The final goal for me will be to roll my own HLA front-end functions and macros. By getting into this book seriously C suddenly looks a lot simpler. As has been said by others the most important part of learning is to keep writing code, running it, debuggging it and fixing it. Projects really are best for learning. Old ansi C games can be found and modified with high reward.
