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J. BartlettLearn to Program with Assemblyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7437-8_16

16. Basic Language Features Represented in Assembly Language

Jonathan Bartlett1  
(1)
Tulsa, OK, USA
 

The goal of this part of the book is to demonstrate how features from higher-level programming languages map onto assembly language. Whether assembly language is your first programming language or your hundredth, its primary usage for the average programmer is to give them insight into what’s really happening under the hood of whatever language they are programming in.

However, there are a large number of programming languages out there. We aren’t going to pick any particular ...

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