Editing High Level Assembly (section)

== Origins and Goals ==

HLA was initially designed as a tool for teaching assembly language programming at the college and university level. The objective was to leverage students' existing programming knowledge to accelerate their learning of assembly language. Most students in assembly language programming courses are already familiar with high-level [[control flow]] structures like IF, WHILE, and FOR. HLA allows students to immediately apply this knowledge to assembly language coding early in the course. This enables them to master other prerequisite subjects in assembly before learning how to code low-level forms of these control structures. The book ''The Art of Assembly Language Programming'' by Randall Hyde utilizes HLA for this purpose.<ref>{{Cite web |title=''The Art of Assembly Language Programming'' |url=https://oopweb.com/Assembly/Documents/ArtOfAssembly/Volume/toc.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329211639/http://oopweb.com/Assembly/Documents/ArtOfAssembly/Volume/toc.html |archive-date=2018-03-29 |access-date=2010-02-12}}</ref>