Reddit mentions of Assembly Language and Computer Architecture Using C++ and Java™

I don't know how sarcastic you're being, but I actually agree. One of my professors in a second-year C++ class received a "trial" textbook (many publishers send them to professors, hoping to get the professors to recommend them to the school), it was an earlier edition of this book, essentially an introduction to assembly language and compilers. He thought that it was too low-level and that students would never get any use out of it, so I asked him if I could have it. After reading through it I thought it was a fantastic way to show exactly how a language like C gets turned into machine instructions, memory lay-out, and how to work within machine-induced limitations (the machine they used was limited to a very, very small amount of RAM). But he didn't seem to think that this knowledge would benefit most students. I think that requiring a Z80 or somesuch class would be great, because of the low-level things that a programmer should learn, so that they can be aware of the performance implications of higher-level operations.

Yeah you are right. I made the same mistake! Nice catch.

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Would love someone to chime in and define the exact difference between the heap and stack.

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I learned compilers through a programming language engineered by one of our professors, where he tried to simplify the language so that the most important concepts could be highlighted. His language only utilized a stack, so there is definitely room for some nuance here (regarding real programming languages).

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I highly recommend his book on Assembly Language and Computer Architecture Using C++ and Java https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0534405274/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0

As well as his book on Compiler Construction

https://www.amazon.com/Compiler-Construction-Using-Java-JavaCC/dp/0470949597

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