
PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS–I 2-5
2.2.2 | Assembly Language Programming
Now that we have understood the assembly process and have decided the assembler to
use, let us get into the nitty-gritty of programming. The steps involved are:
i) Write the code with the help of an editor. We can have an editor within MASM
or can use notepad or wordpad. Save it as filename.asm in the BIN directory of
MASM. Note that instructions, directives and labels are not case sensitive.
ii) Open the DOS command window and go to the directory containing MASM. From
this, go to the BIN directory.
iii) Assemble the code. Syntax errors (if any) will be reported at this stage. ...