[jwhitlark]

If you are self taught, you owe it to yourself to take this course. It's the best tie together class I've ever seen, and made a world of difference to me.

Note that this is one the first half of the coursework, I'm still waiting for the second part.

Seriously, if you're self taught, and have been writing code for a while, this and a great compiler course will take you to a new level.

[ellius]

I'm self-taught. This was the first book that actually answered my question "but how does it work?". I'd been getting incomplete and misguided answers for years when I finally stumbled across this book in an HN thread, and I was finally able to put the full picture together.