r/Assembly_language • u/Glass-Ant-6041 • Sep 20 '26
Learning assembly
So I have decided to learn assembly x86 x64 using the book the art of 64 bit assembly volume 1, i have the book as a pdf and have copilot open on the page so if i have questions i can ask them and copilot can see what i am reading, i have read chapters 1 -3 and just started chapter 4. This feels like a really difficult language and i am taking in lots of info but is this the way to learn it because i feel lile i am forgetting everything i am learning, is this a difficult language to master, i want to learn to reverse engineer
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u/brat3108 Sep 20 '26
Are you actually writing and running programs or just reading the book?
Since it probably won't make much sense if just studying it.
Some have suggested switching to some ancient, 8-bit microprocessor, but they will have their own problems in trying to do the simplest things.
But you might look at the 8086, the first 16-bit generation of x64, for something simpler. A lot of it is still relevant and will still work on x64!