I feel like few people are aware of the billions it cost to deploy and maintain a large scale LEO constellation. If it would come 100% from taxes, people would get mad
This going to be an unpopular opinion... but I consider chatGPT as an excellent teacher. You can ask about similarities and differences between C and Rust, you can ask to convert code from C to rust... it can get you started easily.
Edit: ah you were asking for a book. Then ignore this :D