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“From NAND to Tetris” is the classic starting point.

• profosaur 9y ago
  The NAND to Tetris textbook is a masterpiece. (The book is called The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles. The authors are Nisan and Schocken). I worked through the entire textbook by myself, doing all the projects, and having no previous knowledge of computer architecture or compilers. It was a challenging but smooth process. The difficulty level was just right and I didn't get frustrated. The computer you build is designed brilliantly. It's as simple as it can be, while still being a real computer can be that can play video games.
• arman_ashrafian 9y ago
  Im studying CS right now (community college) and we have two low level courses. In the first one we use Nand2Tetris and also build a SAP-1 (simple as possible) computer following Ben Eaters YouTube series. One of the coolest classes I've ever taken. We all built an actual working computer on a fricken breadboard. The second class is the one im taking right now on x86 assembly and its cool but definetly not as fun as building a computer from scratch. If no ones has watched Ben Eaters videos I highly recommend them.