What you're talking about are _much_ higher level books. They'll make you a better programmer for sure. This book (probably) won't do that, but it will give yo

What you're talking about are _much_ higher level books. They'll make you a better programmer for sure. This book (probably) won't do that, but it will give you a more intuitive sense of how the machine actually _works_ at its core. This is not meant to be hands on stuff for someone who's programming at your level of abstraction. Compared to those books you could clear this one out in a few days, and the benefit/effort ratio is probably actually better, although much less directly applicable.