Developing Utilities in Assembly Language by Deborah L. Cooper
Publisher: Wordware Publishing Inc.,U.S.; Pap/Dsk edition (Jul 1995) | 191 pages | Language English | ISBN:155622429X

This book is called ?Developing Utilities in Assembly Language,? which exactly describes its theme. The key word here is ?developing.? By studying the source code listings for the programs contained in this book and following the detailed explanations of how the programs were constructed, you will learn a great deal about assembly language programming on the PC?things that the other books neglect to cover.
This book describes many useful programming techniques you can master and use when creating your own programs. You will learn how to design programs from start to finish. To this end, it is hoped that this book will spark your imagination, creativity and productivity. Therefore, don?t just give the book a once-over read. Study each section and the techniques and discussion presented. Think about how to undertake some of the challenges presented under ?Projects?. Take the time to modify the source code files, add new features to the programs, or create entirely new programs from the ideas presented. The more time you take to play and learn, the more productive and rewarding will be your programming hobby or career.

It is assumed that you are familiar with using DOS and BIOS function calls and have a good working knowledge of the PC?s instruction set. You may, however, find it useful to have handy a good reference book or two that contains this information. Although this book is not a beginner?s guide to learning assembly language, it will nevertheless be useful to people at all skill levels of assembly language programming, since no other book can show you how to develop programs from start to finish using the PC?s resources.

The utilities presented in this book can and should be used as a stepping-stone. That is, you can modify and enhance these programs to add more features, to optimize them or to use as starting points for other utilities.
How This Book Is Organized

Each section of this book discusses the development and theories used to create a working program. To this end, the sections are presented in a uniform manner that is easy to follow. Each section contains the following:

? a description of the program?s purpose and instructions on how to use it
? a list of the DOS and BIOS function calls used in the program
? a very detailed explanation of how the program was developed along with special techniques used
? a short summary of what is covered in this section
? one or more sources to consult for additional information
? the actual ASM source code listing for the program itself
+ Comprehensive PMode Tutorials with C & ASM
+Art of Assembly Language