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Introduction to Computer Organization: An Under the Hood Look at Hardware and x86-64 Assembly
Introduction to Computer Organization gives programmers a practical understanding of what happens in a computer when you execute your code. You may never have to write x86-64 assembly language or design hardware yourself, but knowing how the hardware and software work will give you greater control and confidence over your coding decisions. We start with high-level fundamental concepts like memory organization, binary logic, and data types and then explore how they are implemented at the assembly language level.
The goal isn’t to make you an assembly programmer, but to help you comprehend what happens behind the scenes between running your program and seeing “Hello World” displayed on the screen. Classroom-tested for over a decade, this book will demystify topics like:
How to translate a high-level language code into assembly language
How the operating system manages hardware resources with exceptions and interrupts
How data is encoded in memory
How hardware switches handle decimal data
How program code gets transformed into machine code the computer understands
How do pieces of hardware like the CPU, input/output, and memory interact to make the entire system work.
The goal isn’t to make you an assembly programmer, but to help you comprehend what happens behind the scenes between running your program and seeing “Hello World” displayed on the screen. Classroom-tested for over a decade, this book will demystify topics like:
How to translate a high-level language code into assembly language
How the operating system manages hardware resources with exceptions and interrupts
How data is encoded in memory
How hardware switches handle decimal data
How program code gets transformed into machine code the computer understands
How do pieces of hardware like the CPU, input/output, and memory interact to make the entire system work.
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502 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2022
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May 3, 2025
how unfortunate this is the first book I've finished this year 4/10
October 15, 2023
Assembly code learning starts on page 146.
x86-64 learning with gcc, g++, gdb, and as.
I'm using this to learn all of those. I'm not gonna lie.... the logic chapters in these nand2tetris type books are insanely dry and hard to follow. I hate to admit it, but my Philosophy instructor was useful, and taught truth tables in a followable fashion.
The first HALF of the book is logic related. Yes, I get it, you need to know the basics. But dayumn 6-7 chapters or truth tables incarnations and iterations explained.
The last half actually teaches you how to sus through assembly code from your C files. It's actual assembly code.
x86-64 learning with gcc, g++, gdb, and as.
I'm using this to learn all of those. I'm not gonna lie.... the logic chapters in these nand2tetris type books are insanely dry and hard to follow. I hate to admit it, but my Philosophy instructor was useful, and taught truth tables in a followable fashion.
The first HALF of the book is logic related. Yes, I get it, you need to know the basics. But dayumn 6-7 chapters or truth tables incarnations and iterations explained.
The last half actually teaches you how to sus through assembly code from your C files. It's actual assembly code.
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