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 # assembly-intro
 Intro to x86 Assembly Language
+MASM is short for Microsoft Macro Assembler
+• Assembly instructions are readable forms of machine instructions
+– They use mnemonics to specify operations in a human-oriented
+MOV (move) SUB (subtract) JMP (jump)
+• Instructions have two aspects : operation and operands
+– Operation (Opcode): how to use state variable values
+– operands: which state variables to us
+• Operands can be specified in a variety of ways that are called
+addressing modes
+– Simple modes: register, immediate, direct
+– More powerful: indirect