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This article shares three classic books to help a programmer from non-traditional background to get a better understanding of computer system under the hood. - computerscience programming

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

It covers how technology involved and computer was built, how do hardware components work together to run a program, the book answered my questions about what happens in a computer behind the scenes, and it laid foundation for me to grasp higher abstraction level mechanism such as operating systemThis is actually a text book used at Carnegie Mellon, it explains the underlying elements common among all computer systems and how they affect general application performance but from the programmer’s...

The book has three main parts: program structure and execution, running programs on a system, interaction and communication between programs. I did not read this book from start to end, but rather dive into the chapters I want to learn more details or curious about, since I’ve already have some basic ideas after reading the first book.

It has three pieces: virtualization, concurrency, persistence, these are the fundamental concepts in OS construction. I find it works great with the operating system course the authors are teaching. Note that on the course page it lists CSAPP similar course as its prerequisite.

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