Market_Desc: Primary audience: Computer enthusiasts who wish to understand programming and x86 hardware at a deep level; Linux-savvy computer enthusiasts wishing to increase their understanding of the underlying machine and the ways it interacts with the Linux operating system and the applications that run under it. Readers need to be at an intermediate level of Linux; ideally but not exclusively Ubuntu Linux. Secondary audience: University students taking intro to programming courses. (Several of these have told me that reading 2E allowed them to pass such courses when they had basically given up hope.) Special Features: · As with the bestselling second edition, this updated and expanded edition offers a complete, step-by-step guide to assembly language. · The book begins with a complete, accessible picture of the internal operations of PCs, presenting a systematic approach to the process of writing, testing, and debugging programs in assembly language, and providing how-to information for using procedures and macros.· This book offers beginners and intermediate programmers a solid and comprehensive understanding of how to cope with the complexity of assembly programming.· 60% of the material either new or heavily revised for Ubuntu Linux, Eclipse, and the gcc/gdb linker/debugger combo, all written in the author's hallmark conversational, tongue-in-cheek style which has captured reader's attention; extensive samples· The expert author has high visibilityat his site: http://www.duntemann.com/ About The Book: By starting with a complete, accessible picture of the internal operations of PCs, presenting a systematic approach to the process of writing, testing, and debugging programs in assembly language, and providing how-to information for using procedures and macros, this third edition offers beginners and intermediate programmers a solid and comprehensive understanding of how to cope with the complexity of assembly programming.In the past four or five years, Ubuntu Linux has emerged as the best-supported and most widely used Linux distro, and Linux differs from Windows in that simple terminal apps may easily be created in assembly. All the tutorial material in this edition has been recast for Ubuntu Linux. The NASM assembler is still available (and much improved!) and will be retained. The portable and widely used Eclipse IDE system can be used with NASM and will be used for all tutorial presentations. The gcc compiler used for linking and gdb for debugging. Both utilities are shipped with Ubuntu Linux and are very widely used. Linux itself is written in gcc. All software mentioned in the book is downloadable without charge from the Internet.