Computer systems
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- I recently purchased Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective [0] and am currently working through it with pen and paper.
I've only had peripheral exposure to writing in assembly and "systems level" programming so I'm really quite enjoying it.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Perspect...
- To me, there is nothing that can beat CSAPP on this topic.
[1] R. E. Bryant and D. R. O’Hallaron. Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective. Prentice Hall, 3rd edition, 2015.
It´s a shame that the last edition is from ten years ago, although to be fair I actually only read the 2nd and only skimmed the 3rd one. Still, would be nice to get an update using ARM.
- > When I look at modern 64 bit architecture books that get suggested for me to teach with I just laugh
Why I recommend Bryant/O'Hallaron's Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (for comparch) to newbies, as coding is what most folks are likely to be doing early on.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Computer_Systems.html?i...
- Also I wish the juniors on my team would do this book. It has helped me so much. Just not directly.
Btw, if you enjoyed the book you might like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Randal...
I'd love to have the time to work through it as I think the level of in depth knowledge it provides would be the best thing for me as a programmer.
I found it through:
- I started out as a business analyst and technical product manager at a startup before transitioning to software engineer job family there and in my 2 subsequent roles over the past 6 years. It sounds like your management is especially supportive of you making this transition internally, which is going to be very helpful.
I want to add a caveat that your manager and colleagues should be a resource for you when tackling projects at work, and not to hesitate to ask pragmatic questions about the project(s) you might pitch in on there. It's ok to not have all the fundamentals down, as long as you're working to be a net positive on the project(s).
I went through some of the books listed in the teach yourself CS resource. https://teachyourselfcs.com/
A subset of the resources listed there are probably the most pragmatic for the topics you asked, but you might discover that you're interested in other areas of CS as you slowly work through them. I think it's ok to nibble away at exercises while juggling your family and work obligations.
* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - SICP. If the book doesn't necessarily click right away, doing a subset of the Scheme exercises are still worthwhile.
* Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective - CS:APP. Incredibly helpful knowledge about low-level programming.
* Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach - You mentioned having a home lab, and more networking understanding will help contextualize some of your work.
- I will probably recommend csprimer, this is hands down one of the best introductions that I found and I recommended to a lot of people who reached out to me. The order I will probably recommend is the following
1. Programming: Beyond the basics
2. Computer Systems
3. Operating Systems
4. Algorithms and Data Structures
5. Computer Networks
This is going to take time but it will be worth your time.
For discrete Math I sincerely recommend you to take a look at this book "Discrete Mathematics with Applications by Susanna Epp. This is an excellent book and it has good problems.
I will also recommend you to look at https://fa24.datastructur.es/ this is a very good beginner course on data structures that is completely free by UC Berkeley
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