My mantra is "It's all just code." If you want an overview of systems topics, take a look at the webpage for the book "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspect

My mantra is "It's all just code." If you want an overview of systems topics, take a look at the webpage for the book "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective": http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu The CMU professors who made the book also have a course at CMU which uses the book as a textbook. I TAed a course at Virginia Tech that used the textbook. I thought the course does an excellent job in demystifying many systems concepts.