Assembly Language Adventures: Complete Course – Learn Assembly Language

Learn Assembly Language

The x86 Adventures series teaches you your computer’s language – x86 Assembly language, from scratch. No prior knowledge is assumed.

[Complete Course]

This is the full collection of x86 Assembly Adventures. It covers everything from the real basics to being an independent (and tough) x86 Assembly programmer. Assembly Language Adventures: Complete Course – Learn Assembly Language

Main topics covered:

• The Binary System
• The x86 Architecture
• Intro to Flat Assembler
• Branching
• Signed and Bitwise Operations
• Memory
• Strings
• Subroutines and the Stack
• Reading the Manuals
• Debugging
• Dealing with Windows API

Why learn x86 Assembly Language?  

• You are the kind of person who really likes to know how things work. In this course, you are going to get a solid understanding of how computer programs work from the inside.
• Become a better programmer – Knowing how things work down there will help you take better decisions, even as a high-level programmer. If you were always wondering what is the stack, or what are those pointers everyone talks about, you came to the right place.
• You want to become a reverse engineer or a security researcher, read the code of viruses or look for software vulnerabilities. As most of the time the original source code will not be available to you, a solid understanding of x86 Assembly Language is mandatory.

Course structure

The course is made of video lectures. A lecture could be from a  presentation, or a real-world example, showing me doing stuff at the computer.  Almost every video lecture is accompanied by some kind of exercise. The exercises are open source, and you can get them from Github.

It is crucial that you complete the exercises.

Course tech stack

• You are using a Windows operation system. (The course videos use Windows 7). (This means it will work perfectly on Windows 7 and Windows 10).
• You have an x86 processor.

For the tech-savvy, some more details about the tools we are going to use in this course:

• Assembly flavor: x86 32 bits protected mode.
• Assembler: The Flat Assembler (FASM)
• Debugger: WinDbg.

Using Linux? Please contact me if you are not sure.