To me it seems slightly more boring than No Starch bundles from last year, especialy because flagship books in 36 USD tier are not rated very well. But after looking to written reviews, there is no much bad comments. To me it seems that rating is skew down (when there are few reviews, even single negative skew down overal score a lot) by complaints about print quality and unability to copy paste from Kindle edition. I guess rating will converge to better numbers over time. Only reasonable (negative) reviews for 36 USD books (I did not check other half of the books this time) says that "Writing a C Compiler" is bundle of blog post collected to book and "Effective C" is very detailed and not good for beginers (to be honest, after reading book title, I would expect that and I consider it pro, not cons) otherwise I did not find any negative written review. Additionaly, tier pricing seems fair to me. For 1 USD you get two very old books from 2006, For 10 USD you get two additional pretty good books about SW and HW architecture. For 18 USD you get bunch of other books released around 2020 (so slighly outdated, but nice books) and finally, for 36 USD you get some of their latest flagship books. Here are some data: ISBN13 PGS YEAR CNT STARS NAME 978-1718503281 256 2024 14 ★★★☆☆ The Complete Developer 978-1718502604 304 2022 28 ★★★★☆ Data Structures the Fun Way 978-1718502864 560 2024 7 ****° Computer Architecture 978-1718500426 704 2024 22 ★★★★☆ Writing a C Compiler 978-1718500099 502 2022 8 ****° Introduction to Computer Organization 978-1718501362 875 2022 17 ★★★★★ Dive Into Systems 978-1718504127 304 2024 7 ****° Effective C, 2nd Edition 978-1718503861 264 2024 3 ***** Graph Algorithms the Fun Way 978-1593279523 480 2019 1879 ★★★★★ The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition 978-1718500761 180 2021 63 ★★★★☆ Computer Graphics from Scratch 978-1718500365 470 2020 58 ★★★★★ Understanding the Machine 978-1593279707 500 2019 133 ★★★★★ The Secret Life of Programs 978-1718500785 550 2021 8 ****° Hardcore Programming for Mechanical Engineers 978-1718502468 448 2022 10 ***** The Book of I2C 978-1593276669 216 2015 45 ★★★★☆ How Software Works 978-1718500662 380 2020 226 ★★★★★ How Computers Really Work 978-1593276683 320 2006 99 ★★★★☆ Inside the Machine 978-1593271190 610 2006 18 ★★★★☆ Code Craft NOTE: Star rating in the listing above follows my own rules: For books withg less than 10 ratings different characters (* and °) are used 5 star book is book with average rating between 4.7 (incl) and 5.0 (incl) 4 star book is book with average rating between 3.7 (incl) and 4.7 (excl) 3 star book is book with average rating between 2.7 (incl) and 3.7 (excl) 2 star book is book with average rating between 1.7 (incl) and 2.7 (excl) 1 star book is book with average rating between 1.0 (incl) and 1.7 (excl) More on reddit.com

Top tier is somewhat pricier than usual, but there are also 6 newly offered books in this bundle, which is pretty nice: Deep Learning: A Visual Approach (only top tier book and recently published, the rest are available in the somewhat cheaper next-level) Dive into Algorithms Practical Deep Learning Algorithmic Thinking How Computers Really Work Learn Python Visually This appeared in a previous No Starch bundle (ISTR maybe the most recent Python one?), but I'm mentioning the repeat since it was misfiled as an O'Reilly book during my HB library search: Natural Language Processing with Python and spaCy More on reddit.com

You don't need to learn assembly. It can be fun, and it will certainly improve your understanding of how computers work, but you mostly get the same with learning C and using something like godbolt.org to see how C code is translated to different assemblys. If you want to learn something more relevant today, yet very low level in its own way, then learn writing GPU shader code. More on reddit.com