HLA was developed initially as a tool to teach assembly language programming. As Hyde notes: The principle goal of HLA was to leverage students' existing programming knowledge. For example, good ...

But you can get a great starting tutorial with the 21 programs on the ARM Assembly by Example website. You need a 32-bit ARMv6 or better — so Raspberry Pi will work here.

Presents the organization and operation of a conventional computer, including principal instruction types, data representation, addressing modes, program control, I/O, assembly language programming, ...