Introduction to Computing Systems

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1. galp76May 2024
   I'm also a self taught programmer, my first book about programming was "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", then I tried to learn C and I didn't understand anything of what I read until I find "Introduction to Computing Systems" by Yale Patt and Sanjay Patel, great book.

   Edit: also did 200 Codewars katas to practice, then started to build things.

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2. epakaiJul 2023
   Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits & Gates to C/C++ & Beyond

   https://www.mheducation.com/highered/product/introduction-co...

   Is similar to nand2tetris. It uses a simple machine language, the Little Computer 3 (LC-3), and builds from the hardware up. Earlier editions are cheap, and don't include C++.

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3. philonoistJul 2022
   I hope you go through fundamentals first. You can't understand C without them[0].

   Nothing explains systems programming like C[1], including Rust. Godspeed.

   [0] Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits & Gates to C/C++ & Beyond 3rd Edition by Yale Patt (Author), Sanjay Patel (Author)

   [1] Books by Robert C. Seacord and/or Noam Nisan

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4. LesabotsyApr 2020
   My take Introduction to Computing Systems: From Bits & Gates to C/C++ & Beyond (https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Computing-Systems-Gates-...)
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5. kilyoAug 2026
   my starting point is really just now, im not very experienced in coding and i just wanted to learn assembly to really understand whats going on under the hood, but i am actually reading a computer architecture right now currently reading Introduction to Computing Systems 3rd edition

   thanks for the github resource although its saying that i have to learn c bottom to top lol

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6. zuzuleinenSep 2022
   Just yesterday I was reading Introduction to computing systems by Patt&Pattel when I realized: I'll never finish this book.

   I have other big books lying around my home: OSTEP, Algo Design Manual by Skienna, SICP, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Computer Systems A programmer perspective. They are all wonderful, that's why I bought them in print, but I'll never gonna finish them.

   On top of that I'm doing a course on Docker. Learning more about Go etc.

   So to answer your question. I no longer decide on what things to learn based on them being finisheable. I pick whatever I want to do today. Life is too short to do things you don't enjoy.

   I'll never gonna finish my projects, but I have something to do everyday. I'm grateful for that.

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