Programming from the Ground Up

From the author:

Most introductory books on programming frustrate me to no end. At the end of
them you can still ask "how does the computer really work?" and not have a good
answer. They tend to pass over topics that are difficult even though they are
important. I will take you through the difficult issues because that is the only way to move on to masterful programming. My goal is to take you from knowing
nothing about programming to understanding how to think, write, and learn like a
programmer. You won’t know everything, but you will have a background for how
everything fits together. At the end of this book, you should be able to do the
following:

Understand how a program works and interacts with other programs
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Read other people’s programs and learn how they work
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Learn new programming languages quickly
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Learn advanced concepts in computer science quickly
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