X86 Assembler

[Westyfield2]

'afternoon,

One of our tutors has asked us to do some stuff in Assembler .

Quite how he expects anyone to have a clue I don't know .... He's not teaching Assembler (just going away for a few weeks and telling us to get on with it) and our programming module is teaching us Java.

He's said that we're to use C library functions and declare variables in C, rather than doing it all in Assembler, which is good.... but having any programming experience whatsoever was not required to get in to the course, and as the programming module is teaching us Java half the class don't even have a clue about C .

Anyways, the task he's set is to write a program that sends a txt file from the serial port on one PC and receives it on the serial port of another PC.
It's not a competition or anything, group work is allowed etc.
Once that's done he'd like us to play around with encryption.... but IMHO just getting the thing working is the first priority!

Now I fully intend to do it properly and not just post "LOLZ OCUK CAN U WRITE MA CODE PLZ" but not having prior knowledge of Assembler is a bit of an issue, combined with a tutor that's unhelpful when he's here and isn't going to be here for a while, and isn't going to teach us Assembler when he is here!


Soo peeps.... does anyone know of any good Assembler resources, teaching websites, or similar?

As the programming module is on Java, and this is just a sidetrack of him teaching us about CPU registers, none of our textbooks have anything on Assembler in them .

TIA

 

[davestar_delux]

Been years since I looked at it but there used to be a free PDF book called the Art of Assembly I think. It's quite a read but good for getting your head around stuff.

Also everyone gets a bit weird about assembly but I actually love it, if you get into it it's really quite enjoyable I think.

 

[Tilluss]

This might be good to start, i've had this saved for a while in my bookmarks and been meaning to get around to properly going through it but trying to find the time is another thing.

http://www.doorknobsoft.com/tutorial/asm-tutorial-learning-assembly/

 

[Westyfield2]

Thanks guys, those two look good . Decided that I don't like assembler though!

I've got a transmitter working, and tested it using HyperTerminal on another PC. Had to use the lab pcs to test it though, discovered that none of mine have serial ports anymore!

Now I need to get make a receiver . I guess it'll be pretty similar to the transmitter, but read character from the COM port and write character to a txt file?..

 

[sist_si]

i did this at uni. baffled me to be honest back then. our project was to do a floppy disc sector reader. it outputted in hex and you could traverse the disk.