Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1, Fascicle 1, The: MMIX -- A RISC Computer for the New Millennium 1st Edition

Just reading this will make you smarter. You don't need to actually understand it, you just read it and once you get the English bits the greek bits will make some sense.Seriously, though, the books are amazing. Random numbers. How to make them, and how to test them. That is computers lads, the rest is fluff. And this is the way to know that.So buy the books, read them, reread them, and implement a few things from them and you will be able to bluff your way through almost every conversation in computer science.Ideal for a post grad.

As advertised.

Comprehensive and rigorous(!)

Decades ago, when Knuth wrote the first edition of his classic Art of Computer Programming, he invented an assembly language in which to implement the many algorithms of the books. He called it MIX. It was quite representative of the actual assemblers of the time [late 60s]. But time and Moore's Law marched on. The 8 bit nature of MIX grew increasingly outdated.In response, Knuth gives us here a massively upgraded version, called MMIX. It operates on 64 bit wide data. Yay! Still a classic von Neumann architecture, mind you. But very spiffy. MMIX also has 256 general purpose registers and 32 special purpose registers, where these all are 64 bits wide, naturally. Plus, MMIX lives in an address space of 2**64 bytes of memory.Unlike the Intel or AMD chips, which are CISC, Knuth opted for a RISC MMIX. So learning the opcodes is very rapid, if you have dealt with assemblers before.This little text gets you up to speed in MMIX. Consider it as prep for the full volume 4, when that comes out. [Prof. Knuth, it's late.]But this MMIX book is utterly unlike any other assembler book. It comes replete with programming problems (and answers) of considerable intellectual heft. Conventional assembler books simply don't do this. Their problems tend to be mundane and trivial. This book lets you find surprising conceptual depths hidden under a deceptively simple language. Compare this to chess.

The Art of Computer Programming is a classic from Professor Knuth.this is required CS reading and should be required for every programmer.

The material and the writing are of course amazing.However it won't download to a kindle scribe.

Three classic volumes from Donald Knuth. I have the 3rd edition. Once your get pass understanding MIX ( MMIX, 4th edition), it is a great technical read. Bring so much to Computer Science. I used them in school. I use them today.