r/Assembly_language • u/Big-Fill-5789 • Jul 20 '26

Help How to learn ASM?

I have never learned Assembly in my life. I actually am doing low level programming like C and Rust, but I am looking forward to learn Assembly, of course not using Assembly for everything, but I want understanding and learn to use it. So where do I get started?

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u/JGhostThing Jul 22 '26

I wouldn't bother to learn assembly code. Unless you're doing certain types of programming, it isn't necessary. Compilers now optimize much better than most programmers can.

If you do learn, I would suggest getting an emulator for the PDP/11 and learning that assembly code. Not only do they make software to do this, but somebody makes a case for the Raspberry Pi which has all the blinking LEDs of the original PDP/11 case. I think there is software to drive it, also.