[320] Assembly Language Tutorial (7 videos)
a series of video-tutorials by Neil Dickson
This tutorial teaches x86 assembly language from the ground up using the context of writing code for basic graphics operations.
After a brief introduction, it starts off with filling an image with colour, moving to more advanced operations like rotating images. Most videos begin with an explanation of concepts or details about assembly, and then show how to apply that information to implement the given algorithms.
Programming shown is done with Inventor IDE, available from http://www.codecortex.com/ide/. The tutorial assumes that you have a decent grasp of C.
Video Tutorials
[850] Assembly Language Tutorial: Episode 0: Some Background
This video introduces the tutorial and some basic concepts about the CPU and RAM before actually looking at any assembly language. It also explains what assembly language is and when one might want to use it.
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[863] Assembly Language Tutorial: Episode 1: Jumping in Head First
This video covers the very basics of assembly language, just enough to write a simple loop that fills an image with colour.
[893] Assembly Language Tutorial: Episode 2: Images, Flags, and Functions
This video explains how image buffers are structured, how the condition flags are used, and then we draw a rectangle into our image.
[975] Assembly Language Tutorial: Episode 3: The Stack and Looking Back
This video explains how parameters can be passed to functions using the stack or registers, and gives a more detailed look at the available general registers. After this, we try out the stack, implementing recursive flood fill.
[1345] Assembly Language Tutorial: Episode 3.5: More on the Stack
This video explains a variation of the C calling convention as an example of a different way of managing parameters on the stack. In this way, we can have ebp free for other uses, put parameters on the stack using mov instead of push, and postpone clearing parameters from the stack to save time.
