I'd recommend Charles Petzold's Code: http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/ http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/ Which does a great job building up computing from

I'd recommend Charles Petzold's Code: http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/ http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/ Which does a great job building up computing from bits all the way to a adders, CPUs, and assembly language (with the historical background around it too). I think the easiest way to get an idea for Quantum Computing and what the difference is comes from watching a specific example, I thought this example of Shor's algorithm was pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwZZaI5u0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwZZaI5u0c