Beginnners dilemma/journey

I first started to read Myke Predko's Programming and customizing PIC Microcontrollers. The book was too advanced for me. I figured I needed to learn some basics first like aessmbly.

I read Assembly step by step by Duntemann. It is a great book and it gives you a much better understanding of how microcontrollers as well as computers in general. Now that I am done with this book where should I go next. Duntemanns book was great but it dealt with 8086/8088 assembly. I couldn't even run most of the code given as samples because they were too old. Are these instructions transferable to other MCUs.

Next I plan on reading the Art of Assembly. But afterwards I'd like to narrow it down my reading to the 8051, AVR or PIC assembly instruction set.

Does this seem like the correct way to go about it? If so, what should I do next. In terms of actual assembly coding, Duntemanns book gave me very little. Most of the code wouldn't compile.

Next I plan on reading the Art of Assembly. But afterwards I'd like to narrow it down my reading to the 8051, AVR or PIC assembly instruction set

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i would suggest that u dont read that book if u want to learn assembly for PIC, AVR or the 8051. that book is for the assembly of x86 processors. it would be like learning french to speak in chinese!!!!!!!!!!

first u make up your mind about which microcontroller u want to start with. the assembly of AVRs and PICs is not very difficult because they have a RISC architecture.

if u want to start off with PICs. i would recommend that u go to http://www.winpicprog.co.uk and learn PIC assembly from the PIC tutorials on that site. then u should also go to http://www.piclist.com and see the unlimited lines of code there.

if u want to start off with AVRs. go to http://www.avr-asm-tutorial.net/avr_en/beginner/index.html and http://www.avrbeginners.net/ and http://www.avrfreaks.net

i hope that helps

Thanks Sam.

I'm not particular on any MCU, at least not at the moment. Like I stated earlier Duntemann's book was helpful, as the Art of Assembly will also be. i think I lack the programming background that many others have, assembly is a great place to start.
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I'll check out those sites. Thanks again.

I found the online books in MikroElectronike really helpful...

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...specially the one in picbasic...good starting point for me...
Good luck