julik wrote:
> I would love to join the recently started confession fest.
> 
> I've got a similar problem as Jay, but in a totally different domain.
> Having started as a script kiddo - what kind of book can introduce me in
> the beautiful but-oh-so-scary world of things like bit shifts, number
> representations, registers and that 0xF of them all, so that I can (not
> too urgently) start in C with at least some level of self-confidence and
> understanding?
> 
> Is there some kind of book like "Everything you should know about the
> Von Neumann machine to get by unscathed without brain damage" or so?
> Except Donald Knuth because I also have a day job to fulfill :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
Straight from the horse's mouth:

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~adyilie/comp265/vonNeumann.html

:) :) :)

And no, I never met Von Neumann but I *did* write software for an
original Von Neumann machine -- ILLIAC I :).