Whats a good Resource on Learning 6502 Assembly, for someone who has little to no experience Programming? (self.retrocomputing)

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I've had the idea to try and learn how to Program 6502 Assembly for my Commodore PET, but I'm a little lost on what the best source is on learning this stuff, especially for a beginner who is yet unfamiliar with its full Architecture and Quirks!

Thus far I've tried looking at Books from the PETs Period, but those do expect quite a bit of pre-knowledge in Computing, which for me includes a tiny bit of Python and Commodore Basic...

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[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The Internet Archive has tons of old scanned books on the subject. Computers were new to a LOT of people at the time most of these were published, so they usually assume minimal knowledge.

Personally, I grew up on COMPUTE! magazine, and found their books to be very good when I was a kid learning this stuff.

[-] djehuti@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

I stan this one: https://archive.org/details/6502-assembly-language-programming

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