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A Friendly Introduction to Assembly for High-Level Programmers


A friendly introduction to assembly for high-level programmers — Hello

Assembly refers to a family of programming languages featuring instructions that closely map to the machine code that the CPU will execute. In fact, one of the raisons d’etre of assembly languages is to provide a human-readable version of machine code in situations like reverse engineering, hardware programming, or developing games for consoles. In this first article, we learned some basic assembly concepts, we cut our teeth on its syntax, and we even wrote some working software.

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