Many programmers have limited effectiveness because they dont have a deep understanding of how their computer actually works under the hood.ampampampnbsp In Learn to Program with Assembly you will learn to program in assembly language the language of the computer itself.ampampampnbspAssembly language is often thought of as a difficult and arcane subject.ampampampnbsp However author Jonathan Bartlett presents the material in a way that works just as well for firsttime programmers as for longtime professionals.ampampampnbsp Whether this is your first programming book ever or you are a professional wanting to deepen your understanding of the computer you are working with this book is for you.ampampampnbsp The book teaches 64bit x86 assembly language running on the Linux operating system.ampampampnbsp However even if you are not running Linux a provided Docker image will allow you to use a Mac or Windows computer as well.The book starts with extremely simple programs to help you get your grounding going steadily deeper with each chapter.ampampampnbsp At the end of the first section you will be familiar with most of the basic instructions available on the processor that you will need for any task.ampampampnbsp The second part deals with interactions with the operating system.ampampampnbsp It shows how to make calls to the standard library how to make direct system calls to the kernel how to write your own library code and how to work with memory.ampampampnbsp The third part shows how modern programming language features such as exception handling objectoriented programming and garbage collection work at the assembly language level.ampampampnbspampampampnbspAdditionally the book comes with several appendices covering various topics such as running the debugger vector processing optimization principles a list of common instructions and other important subjects.This book is the 64bit successor to Jonathan Bartletts previous book Programming from the Ground Up which has bee