An MIT OpenCourseWare course introducing assembly language and how high-level code such as C or C++ is translated into the machine instructions a processor executes.

Commenters point to it as a starting place for understanding how programs map down to what the processor actually does, with one calling MIT OpenCourseWare's assembly lectures great and saying to start there.

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1. Strongly recommendsBrisketSundaer/learnprogramming2022in “If you could choose four programming languages to prepare you for most paradigms, styles of languages and jobs, what would they be?”

   MIT OpenCourseWare has some great lectures on assembly. I’d start there.

2. Recommendsdmazzonir/learnprogramming2016in “How to understand computer performance with code execution?”

   This is a great question. In order to really understand this you should take courses on Assembly Language, Computer Architecture, and Operating Systems. * From Assembly Language you'll learn how programs in a language like C or C++ get turned into the machine instructions that computers use, and…

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