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Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine, Volume I
by Randall Hyde	ISBN:1593270038
No Starch Press © 2004 (410 pages)
This first volume teaches important concepts of machine organization in a language-independent fashion, giving programmers what they need to know to write great code in any language, without the usual overhead of learning assembly language.

Table of Contents
Write Great Code”Understanding the Machine, Volume I
Chapter 1	-	What you Need to Know to Write Great Code
Chapter 2	-	Numeric Representation
Chapter 3	-	Binary Arithmetic and Bit Operations
Chapter 4	-	Floating-Point Representation
Chapter 5	-	Character Representation
Chapter 6	-	Memory Organization and Access
Chapter 7	-	Composite Data Types and Memory Objects
Chapter 8	-	Boolean Logic and Digital Design
Chapter 9	-	CPU Architecture
Chapter 10	-	Instruction Set Architecture
Chapter 11	-	Memory Architecture and Organization
Chapter 12	-	Input and Output (I/O)
Appendix A	-	ASCII Character Set
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables