Also recommend CMU's "shell lab": http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html When I was new to systems programming, that lab — a

Also recommend CMU's "shell lab": http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html When I was new to systems programming, that lab — along with all the other labs part of "Computing Systems from a programmer's perspective, especially the binary bomb — helped me better understand lower level concepts such as debugging assembly, fork-exec, etc.