I strongly recommend you to read the course book "The Elements of Computing Systems" [1]. This explains the whole principle in very plain English. It has an ext

I strongly recommend you to read the course book "The Elements of Computing Systems" [1]. This explains the whole principle in very plain English. It has an extremely intuitive and easy to follow logic and set of exercises you can do. It has completely demystified the whole low level world of computers for me. If you can't get the book, a number of exercises and chapters are available for free at this website[2]. [1]: http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ [2]: http://diycomputerscience.com/courses/course/the-elements-of-computing-systems http://diycomputerscience.com/courses/course/the-elements-of...