Introduction to Assembly Programming

content:
    jmp .introduction

.introduction:
    mov rax, HowToASM
    jmp .basic_operations

.basic_operations:
    call .arithmetic
    call .bit_operations
    mov rcx, DataTypes
    jmp .control_flow

.control_flow:
    jmp .hardware_essentials
    
.hardware_essentials:
    mov rax, Memory
    mov rcx, Interrupts
    call FloatingPoint
    call Simd
    call .systems_programming

.systems_programming:
    ret

Objectives

• Understand the relationship between assembly language and opcodes
• Understand byte ordering, as it pertains to Assembly programming
• Identify x86(_64) General Purpose Registers
• Perform basic memory access operations
• Begin debuggin with the GNU Source-Level Debugger (GDB)
• Understand basic data sizes and types with regard to x86(_64)