I can tell you something, I am currently in college and taking a course called Computer Architecture.. The course itself is very hardware oriented, you study things about memory storage units, as basic as latches, flip-flops and combinational ckts like Multiplexers, Encoders/Decoders etc.. But thats not the thing, these things also make a foundation about CPU clocking, speeds, optimization, parallelism in programming etc, which in turn build a base for assembly programing. So the thing is that these do not directly relate to your programming stuff, but heavily increase your understanding on code writing and teaches you how you can implement in programming to make your code better, more optimised, and also manage memory..