'Assembly' or 'Assembler'

[Killswitch]

I'm writing my personal statement for my UCAS form (applicatation for university, for those outside the UK) and I'm takling about my programming ability. Now, I want to say that I have a grasp of ASM, but how exactly should I say it?

[Trond]

Assembly: the language
Assembler: the assembler. Uh. I mean, the assembly "compiler".

[u9]

Difficult to vote - do you understand the language and can make programs with it (first choice) or the assembler and what it does, which is basically just a translator from words to 1's and 0's (second choice). (I think)

[thefool]

If you say you got a grasp on assembler; you wouldnt get in

From wikipedia:

An assembler is a computer program for translating assembly language — essentially, a mnemonic representation of machine language — into object code.

(From there you have to use a linker to get an EXE. FlatAssembler doesnt need a linker though; it can format the code directly. OR you can generate object code and use a linker like PB does.)

Assembly language, commonly called assembly, asm or symbolic machine code, is a human-readable notation for the machine language that a specific computer architecture uses.

edit: just noticed U9's post, and its true of course. If you know how to build an assembler you should say that, but ehm.. Look at the WIKI results! I think you should say that you got a grasp on the assembly language.

[techjunkie]

I want to say that I have a grasp of ASM, but how exactly should I say it?

Are you mention which assembly language you have grasp of?

[Kale]

Assembly: the language
Assembler: the assembler. Uh. I mean, the assembly "compiler".

+1

[Killswitch]

Thanks for the tips guys!