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| Programming from the Ground Up [pdf] (download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 216 points by luu | learning to code | original thread | | ||
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| le-mark Jun 30, 2017 | on: Ask HN: What are the best books on low-level programming | context |
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rramadass Nov 2, 2025 | on: How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly | context
> I want to like it but my brain is too feeble for it. That's a self-defeating attitude which you don't want to reinforce :-( Assembly is not difficult but writing large-scale programs/systems in it is. But almost nobody does this nowadays; it is generally C & Assembly. So you need to know/understand just enough assembly to get along. Start with Jonathan Bartlett's Programming from the Ground Up for a nice introduction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11702025 Then look at Daniel Kusswurm's and Larry Pyeatt's books. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782206 |
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| 1. | Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language (kparc.com) | |
| recommended by 1 user | 2019 | 151 points by chrispsn | original thread | | ||
| 2. | What every programmer should know about memory [pdf] (people.freebsd.org) | |
| recommended by 2 users | 2023 | 2 points by quackulus | original thread | | ||
"Programming from the Ground Up" is a really fantastic book that starts with some architecture, assembler and executable file format. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11702025