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Building a Modern Computer from First Principles http://nand2tetris.org/

It certainly is a good course and I recommend it too. However, this is a full-fledged class requiring many weeks instead of few hours or days.

I was on the fence about whether to suggest it, but I don't think you should dismiss it as being a weeks-long course.

Instead, think of it as 12 mostly-independent projects implementing a small part of a computer's functionality: the set of logical gates, the ALU, the CPU, the computer hardware, the assembler, assembly programming, stack op implementation, a compiler, and and OS. Any one of those will be only a few days.

(I'm in the middle of the Coursera course for it and have done 1-5 and 7-10.)

http://www.nand2tetris.org/course.php

It only has up to chapter 6 online, but there's an old version of the book available for free but I don't have the link handy.

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