[READING]CS:APP, 1 A Tour of Computer Systems

This book trains you to a "Power Programmer", not just a coder.

Classroom Tested Laboratory Exercises

• Data Lab
• Binary Bomb Lab
• Buffer Overflow
• Architecture
• Performance
• Shell
• Malloc
• Proxy

1.1 Information is bits in context

1.2 Programs are translated by other programs into different forms

1.3 It pays to understand how compilation systems work

1.4 Processors read and interpret instructions stored in memory

1.5 Caches matter

1.6 Storage devices form a hierarchy

1.7 The operating system manages the hardware

1.8 Systems communicate with other systems using networks

1.9 Important themes.