Book about programming from the bottom up

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Does anyone know any books that explain programming from the bottom up, starting with the physics or zeros and ones, and explains it level by level until they explain the computer languages and how they work? I'm talking about something really detailed.

I just don't understand how the syntax of the language then translates into zeros and ones, etc.

Posted 10-Nov-15 22:53pm

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Updated 10-Nov-15 23:15pm

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F-ES Sitecore 11-Nov-15 5:09am

You need to learn assembler if you want to get to that detail.

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Leo Chapiro · Answer 1 · 2015-11-10T23:13:00

Solution 1

Take a look at this very nice free PDF (under the terms of the GNU Free
Documentation License) from Jonathan Bartlett:

Programming from the Ground Up

Posted 10-Nov-15 23:13pm

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Patrice T · Answer 2 · 2015-11-10T23:35:00

Solution 3

The dragon book may be of interests to you too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniques,_and_Tools[^]

Posted 10-Nov-15 23:35pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 3 · 2015-11-10T23:17:00

As far as I know, there isn't anything detailed that covers the whole range from the hardware through to the intimate workings of a .NET language - there is just too much information involved for a single book! And by the time you'd finished writing the damn thing, it would be obsolete as well... :laugh:

Even "simple" things like C# (which is a very simple language) need 1000+ page books to explain it (because it doesn;t work in isolation, it needs a framework behind it). And the "jump" from hardware to OS would be several of those books, before you even got to algorithms (which are a whole set of volumes) that are fundamental to understanding how the frameworks work.

Sorry, but you are going to need to find a lot of different books to cover that range of material.