This is written for young people, but still accurate: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold Link: https://www.amazon.c

This is written for young people, but still accurate: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold Link: https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Software-dp-0137909101/dp/0137909101/ https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw... It's got a very slow, methodical onramp with a lot of diagrams and a light, breezy style. You end up building a (very simple) computer in the end, including instruction processing.