interstice comments on Best Explainers on Different Subjects - Less Wrong

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Comment author: interstice 21 March 2015 01:37:28AM 4 points [-]

Another one on computing: The Elements of Computing Systems. This book explains how computers work by teaching you to build a computer from scratch, staring with logic gates. By the end you have a working (emulation of) a computer, every component of which you built. It's great if you already know how to program and want to learn how computers work at a lower level.