alt Hacker NewsSomeone who is just learning to program will not be well served by reading a modern CPU architecture handbook. It is far too complex for someone who doesn't even know yet what a graph is, for example.
Someone who is just learning to program will not be well served by reading a modern CPU architecture handbook. It is far too complex for someone who doesn't even know yet what a graph is, for example.
They don't have to read the whole thing. Excerpts or specific pages/sections, presented under the guidance of an experienced teacher or mentor, are perfectly digestible. The instruction description pages are the best documentation for looking up how to use instructions as well.