A book about computer architecture ?

[BurakCanik]

Excellent! I want to get to the bottom of it. It'll take longer yeah but it's more fun. Thanks Chili!
I'll go find books about those subjects but in the mean time I'll watch that berkeley course CS61C Machine Structure webcasts PutPixel255 mentioned. Some of the topics Chili mentioned in the above post is covered in this lecture. Thanks everyone for all your help.

[PutPixel255]

http://profs.basu.ac.ir/abdoli/upload_f ... 3.1927.pdf

Assembly Language: Step-by-Step
This is the book I forgot to mention last week and it recommends you learn your hex addition tables if you really want to hack assembly. Try it and see

http://www.cram.com/tag/hexadecimal
If you to lazy to make flash cards.

[BurakCanik]

That book seems cool. I've read a few pages and seems like the author is using lots of metaphors and jokes to make the reading easier/funnier which is a good thing in my opinion. I liked it.

My plan is :
I'll first read this ;
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computin ... ng+systems

After that I will focus on an assembly book. The book you recommended seems cool as I said. It's a little outdated (1992) but it has really good reviews. On the other hand there is this :
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-X86-Assemb ... 484200659/
It's brand new (2-3 months old) and has no reviews on amazon or any other site that I could find (I did a brief search I admit). But its table of contents seems rich. I don't know what to do. Any suggestions ?

And by the way I prefer books over e-books, pdfs or online tutorials. Except if it's a REALLY good tutorial series (like that tutorial series we all know and love ).

[PutPixel255]

Well it looks like that book is based on the x86 architecture(CISC) whereas the Berkeley course teaches a MIPS based assembly based on a RISC based architecture. Reduced Instruction Set Code is easier to learn because it has reduced instructions, so I'd learn on that first. For that you can buy a Mips based computer and I just happen to have one to sell you. It's been in my barn An old SGI Indy. Or you can get a MIPS imulator(Je liaisoned that ) to run on whatever platform your using. I'm using QtSpim_9.1.12_Windows.
There's a guy on UTube That goes over Qt and VHDL to simulate designing a proc at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... qnB3nBNF4W

REmember that the simulator is how your gonna learn. The videos are just an excuse to eat popcorn.

[chili]

VHDL... that brings back memories. Soggy, beer-soaked memories.