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Re:Ask HN: What book to read to get a footing in CS theory? by srikz on Sunday August 18, 2019 @12:29PM (#20731178)
Would like to add Nand2Tetris[1] which falls in a similar category.

[1]: https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Re:Ask HN: What book to read to get a footing in CS theory? by bjackman on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:46AM (#20775869)
I actually recommended this to her already - the book (The Elements of Computing Systems) of the same course was the first programming text I ever read. Really enthralling!