---
title: "A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-programmer-s-guide-to-x86-64-assembly-series-overview--mnd3ifqck
source_url: https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/a-programmers-guide-to-x86-64-assembly
type: article
source: "Confessions of a Code Addict"
published: 2025-07-16T05:24:52.931Z
updated: 2025-07-16T05:25:14.038Z
tags: ["performance", "assembly"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 14
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview)

**[Confessions of a Code Addict](https://daily.dev/sources/codeconfessions)** · 2 min read · 14 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A comprehensive series overview covering x86-64 assembly programming from first principles. The series starts with computer organization fundamentals, binary arithmetic, and system-level foundations, then progresses through building assembly programs, debugging with GDB, and making system calls. Future topics include registers, memory addressing, control flow, functions, and culminate in building a web server in pure assembly. Designed to help programmers understand low-level execution and improve their high-level coding skills.

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