From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Plantz Subject: Re: which assembler to use : newbie query Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:43:46 -0700 Message-ID: <44D0BA22.4070003@sonoma.edu> References: <44CE6198.6040101@sonoma.edu> <20060801084935.GA10914@wintermute.farpoint> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060801084935.GA10914@wintermute.farpoint> Sender: linux-assembly-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: leslie.polzer@gmx.net Cc: Hendrik Visage , Only OpenSource , linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org leslie.polzer@gmx.net wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:18:16AM +0200, Hendrik Visage wrote: > > >> Book's name, number and IQ^H^HURL or ISBN number? >> > Would this by any chance be "Programming from the ground up"? > No. That's a pretty good book. As the title suggests, the presentation is "bottom up." For example, he does not get into interfacing with C libraries until nearly half way through the book. In my book, I start with C code. For example, I use C programs to illustrate binary number storage formats, etc. So I take a more "top down" approach. My thought was to start with what the student already knows -- programming in a higher-level language. In addition, my book is intended for classroom use, so I have quite a few exercises. I have not published my book on the open market yet. I was hoping to find a publisher, but assembly language does not have a very big market. So far, we have had the book printed on campus for our students. Meanwhile, publish on demand places have come to be. I am cleaning up some technical issues so that I can publish my book through www.lulu.com. Hopefully, that can happen within the next couple of months. I also need to decide how to price it.