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0 pointsRheingoldRiver3y ago0 comments

Did you read Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective first? I read about 300 pages of it (maybe 200 only, I forget) and got _extremely_ bored. I want to read Crafting Interpreters but I'm concerned that Computer Systems is too much of a prerequisite.

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thundergolfer3y ago

I read the first 3 chapters and worked through the in-chapter exercises (not the end-of-chapter exercises). I think that’s about 150-200 pages.

Yeah it’s quite a slog. I think I averaged 10-20 min per page of progress. I intend to return and finish it but it will take me ages.

It’s not a prerequisite at all though. Crafting Interpreters is pretty high level, in comparison.

RheingoldRiverOP3y ago

That's great to hear, thanks for the response! That sounds about as far as I got, so I think probably I was closer to 200 pages, not 300. It was just so incredibly boring. I was making it through maybe 4 pages a day if I was lucky. And all the material was so similar, it wasn't like you got through one part and then built upon it to something very different; it was more of the same with only a small difference. So no new-topic-energy-burst at the start of a new section.

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