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I started with the following book:

http://www.z80.info/zip/zaks_book.pdf

Wonderful book from which a lot of knowledge is applicable to other architectures straight away. It teaches you about planning, control structure implementation and the maths behind it all as well.

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The glorious, good old Z80. Highly recommended.

Also, if you get one of those Z80-powered Texas Instruments calculator, you could do pretty neat things.

That's how I got my start. After TI-BASIC, Z80 assembly was the second programming language I learned, at age 12. It turned out to be a great foundation. For one thing, it was fairly easy to understand, from a syntactic perspective. Secondly, it gave me a much better foundation for understanding the lower-level aspects of C, letting me concentrate more on understanding the more complicated abstractions, and what they actually represent.

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