Quick Question about starting to learn ASM
 

Hello all,
Ive used this site for many years:D great help all. I figure its time to help back.

Browsing around, everyone says to learn ASM. Im familair enough to do basic stuff with other programming languages, such as Java, and C, so this doesnt seem so daunting.

Basically I was wondering if learning HLA would help? or is this the wrong type of ASM to learn. Heres a link to the textbook Ive started using.

http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA/Windows/HTML/AoATOC.html

hla is just a macro'ed variant of asm, and some lib parts....
asm is asm, you need to learn x86 asm (just to clarify), hla doesnt make a blind bit of difference...