Assembly language

Ok, starting on the level. I'm a newbie at programming. I used to learn Visual Basic (shit sucks I know, please don't kill me it was school mandatory), very little C# on my own, but then I dropped programming but installing Linux has rekindled my love of programming and I'm currently diddling with Python and C.

I do how ever want to learn assembly, or at least try it out but I read something about there being a lot of different types of assembly languages.

Fuck? As if assembly isn't hard enough already. so /g/, I assume there are some people here who know a shit load about this, what's the best place to start?

I'd recommend ColdFire over "classic" 68k. Not only did the RISCification of the core dump most of the bullshit addressing modes, but it's also still in use and there's available hardware (eg. Netburner has a couple of $99 boards).

ARM is still the way to go though, just because of availability of both hardware (boards and debugging) and information. The new Thumb-2 instruction set is even more easier to learn, though ironically it removes almost all need for assembly-language programming.