The C Programming Language by Kerningham and Ritchie. If you're interested in something closer to the hardware than Python, why not read about the language tha

The C Programming Language by Kerningham and Ritchie. If you're interested in something closer to the hardware than Python, why not read about the language that implements Python? It's a programming classic, very concise, easy to read and informative. It'll take you from basic control statements to eventually writing a memory allocator.