Programming from the Ground Up is an introduction to programming using assembly language on the Linux platform for x86 machines. It is a great book for novices who are just learning to program as well as for intermediates who have never learned or mastered assembly language programming. It covers many topics skipped by other similar books, including memory management, debugging, interfacing with C, dynamic libraries, and even a bit on GUI programming.

WebAssembly是一种新兴的网页虚拟机标准，它的设计目标包括高可移植性、高安全性、高效率（包括载入效率和运行效率）、尽可能小的程序体积。本书详尽介绍了WebAssembly程序在JavaScript环境下的使用方法、WebAssembly汇编语言和二进制格式，给出了大量简单易懂的示例，同时以C/C++和Go语言开发环境为例，介绍了如何使用其他高级语言开发WebAssembly模块。 本书适合从事高性能Web前端开发、跨语言Web应用开发的技术人员学习参考，也可以作为WebAssembly标准参考手册随时查阅。