I am due to take over a colleague's class soon and it involves teaching some sort of assembly language to electrical engineers. Up until now this has been done using 80x86; it's a well established method but to be honest, not terribly exciting! We already teach Java to a different group and use it to program some Mindstorms robots, and I would like to be able to do the same with the engineers but in assembler. I've already looked at NBC but there doesn't seem to be that much out there to go on - and I only have 10 weeks to come up with some new stuff for the class! Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

I think that NBC is the only assembly language for NXT out there. I would suggest you look at the book "LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Power Programming: Robotics in C" written by the creator of NXC and NBC. It shows you how to get started in both languages. It also has instructions for example robots.

NXC is built on NBC; so if you compile NXC code, it compiles to NBC and then to machine code. In BricxCC, you can hit F12 to view the NBC from the latest NXC compile. This has helped me a lot in learning to program in NBC.

Thanks for the replies, folks. I have downloaded BricxCC and sent off for the book. I will let you all know how I get on!