That's rather surpising, coming from someone proficient in C. Perhaps you only need to discover the close connection between C and assembly. The layer between

That's rather surpising, coming from someone proficient in C. Perhaps you only need to discover the close connection between C and assembly. The layer between them is really razor thin — by learning a few C idioms (function prologue/epilogue and the stack frames, argument passing, etc.) you'd be well on your way. You also need to start writing simple asm code as soon possible; only reading about it won't make it stick.