A fantastic book that goes from putting logic gates together, to wiring chips in software, to implementing a virtual machine, assembler, compiler, etc is "The e

A fantastic book that goes from putting logic gates together, to wiring chips in software, to implementing a virtual machine, assembler, compiler, etc is "The elements of computing systems." Highly recommended. There are exercises in every chapter that you must do to understand the next chapter. http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ An introductory video is called "From Nand to Tetris in 12 Steps" and is at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7654043762021156507 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7654043762021156507