Granted, but he never said he planned to actually write any code.

I did 4 years of Motorola 68000 assembly programming for embedded control applications. Keep in mind that Intel x86 type processors and their decendants are not the only hardware out there (yes, I know, they dominate). You may find a good book for another processor type, and that is still good for understanding assembler in general. I would suggest also reading up on compiler theory, because this may more directly benefit you in understanding what your program in a higher-level language will do. Even if you knew assembler well, that does not tell you what the compiler may be doing.

Actually the first Bible writer was Moses, about 1500 B.C., so we are talking 3500 years, not 4500. Even though the Bible has been translated into many languages, this is not a matter of being a series of translations from one, to another, to another... The Bible was originally written in three languages - Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. Origin manuscripts are not available, but many very old copies of Bible manuscripts in the original languages are available. The Dead Sea Scrolls, for example, date from about 100 B.C. and many Bible books are included in them. Most modern English translations are based on accurate compilations of ancient documents like these, so if you are looking at a good translation then you are looking at something that is very close to the original. As to "written by man, not God", there are many prophesies written in the Bible that were fulfilled centuries after they were written. Only God knows the future.