| i always thought the art of assembly is the de facto bible [1] personally i had all these books and never really cared too much about them in the end is was having a c compiler and a good disassembler - ida at that time - that made me learn it. here's the free copy of ida 5 [2]. i think it doesn't do 64 bit, but it's good enough, and works perfectly fine in wine on both osx and linux. you can always use biew/hiew/olly etc, or more recently hopper, but i think for learning ida is still hands down the best choice do a string copy see what it does. make a function notice how it always starts with push ebp
mov ebp, esp
...
pop ebp
ret
make a switch statement, see what it compiles too(ida annotates it beautifully).i commend the author for what he's doing. a little improvement would be to reduce some of the text, and add some more examples, and some guidance on how to experiment. another sidenote is that the code is basically the same as simple c code. c++ code even doing simple things, depending on what you link, and compile in, can be terribly confusing for a newbie to look at. [1] http://portal.aauj.edu/portal_resources/downloads/programmin... [2] https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download_freew... |