Are there any books regarding the history of programming? Going from Visual Basic to Vim to all the fancy languages we have today. Or anything on how what we write as code gets translated into binary and what happens to our computers when the code processes?
Check out "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold. It goes back to the earliest days of computation (Charles Babbage, etc.) and then shows how it evolved into computers we have today.
It doesn’t talk about programming language history a lot, but shows how assembly works.
