Programming from the Ground Up Book

If you like the book, you also might enjoy my old article series on IBM:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/search/searchResults.jsp?s...

Covers various things including PPC assembly language, PS3 assembly language, using high-level programming techniques in low-level languages, and other fun stuff.

I really love this book, wish more books were like this. I can also recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-Pr...

I first learnt how system calls transition from user space to kernel space when I read this book. Till then I had not understood the mechanism, though I knew what software interrupt is.

Help! I can't find the book itself...

It's in the download area.

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pgubook/

Or if you prefer the dead tree version:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ground-Up-Jonathan-Bartlet...

Thank you!

thanks! this looks great. two birds one stone.

Very nice, but it would be cooler if the title was

"Ground Up Programming Book" ;)

Yeah, I thought it's about a book called "Ground Up"