A must-read introductory text for beginners

...and those who only ever learned high-level programming languages and do not understand their own machine. I recently discovered this book and it opened my eyes to how blind I have been. It gently guides a person that has just learned the essentials of programming from logic gates to hardware architecture to machine language to assembly to writing a barebone OS, virtual machine, and a high-level programming language.

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken

Google talk video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7654043762021156507#

Where is the download link? Do you expect people to buy books and sponsor tree-killing?

>>1
10/10

>>2
You can buy it for Kindle, and probably in other electronic formats.

I actually bought this a few years ago when they had a couple at my local bookshop. It's fine as far as it goes, but is really more suited for beginner level. I took EE so I gained no satisfaction from the first half; the latter half was more palatable, but I can't say it was the eye opening experience OP was describing.

>>4
Yes. You can buy and release to on megaupload, then post link here. Now GTFO.

>>5
You are right about the target audience, which I mentioned in the title. Those who know how a computer actually works on all levels won't benefit from it much - it is aimed to be a remedy
to the modern CS major who knows close to nothing about hardware and sometimes even lower-level software.

>>6
No, I won't support your entitlement complex.

I can't find it anywhere for free. If it was any good I would have pirated it by now.

>>8
There are a few chapters available on http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/

Before compiling the source code on your computer, read this Readme.txt file. You will need a Java compiler such as the one found in the JDK (Java Development Kit) which can be downloaded freely from many sites including http://www.javasoft.com/.

>>10
Q.E.D.

I would like to point out that the book was written by jews.

>>12
Poor excuse for using Java.

“. It gently guides a person that has just learned the essentials of programming from logic gates to hardware architecture to machine language to assembly to writing a barebone OS”
>Java

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Read LoseThos sources instead, don't buy shit

Obsessing over what language is used for teaching is as childish as it can get.

Doesn't look bad.

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>>16
I was enrolling in college and they required students to use Pascal language. But, because I already knew Lisp, I found this Pascal language awful at best. I refused to comply with their shiteating rit of passage and became a college dropout. So now I can claim, that all college graduates are mindless slaves to the education and corporate systems.

>>20
BTW, Pascal language is named after some crazy religious philosopher christfag, so it is full of shit.

>>21
Back to /b/ please.

>>21
9/10