I recently decided I wanted to learn assembly language. So far I haven't started but I spent an hour or two perusing books on assembly language on Amazon, read

I recently decided I wanted to learn assembly language. So far I haven't started but I spent an hour or two perusing books on assembly language on Amazon, reading product descriptions and users' reviews, and I decided to start from this one: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Assembly-Language-Programmer/dp/0764579010/ http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Assembly-Language-Program... The reasons I chose it are (1) It's introductory, i.e., a good first book for a complete noob. (2) It's very Linux-centric. Most good books on assembly language assume you use Windows or even DOS it seems. (3) One of the reviews says, "you will get a good workout using the gdb debugger." Sounds like fun.