Definition of Assembly

Required Knowledge

None.

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Assembly

Assembly (also known as 'asm') is a low level language which represents the actual machine code for a particular processor's architecture.

There are several essential concepts which are fundamentally different to the concepts in High Level Languages.
These concepts are:

• Registers,
• flags,
• opcodes,
• the stack,
• segments,
• and everything is memory.

These concepts are key to learning how to program in assembly and should be understood as best you can before progressing to write a program using an assembler.

Once you've read these definitions it is reccommended you use the assembly tutorials to put this knowledge into practice (I guarentee once you start writing your own programs this will make more sense ;).

• Stew (AdminStew).

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Related links

Assembly tutorials.

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