It's definitely a worthwhile educational experience, even if you never write in it professionally. If you can solve the problems in K&R, a good book to work th

It's definitely a worthwhile educational experience, even if you never write in it professionally. If you can solve the problems in K&R, a good book to work through next is Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective [0]. Coursera used to have a course called The Hardware Software Interface [1] which covered the same material, but it doesn't seem to be availble right now. [0] http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ [1] https://www.coursetalk.com/providers/coursera/courses/the-hardwaresoftware-interface https://www.coursetalk.com/providers/coursera/courses/the-ha...