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About the Course

Welcome to the Introduction to Embedded Systems Software and Development Environments. This course is focused on giving you real world
coding experience and hands on project work with ARM based Microcontrollers. You will learn how to implement software configuration
management and develop embedded software applications. Course assignments include creating a build system using the GNU Toolchain GCC,
using Git version control, and developing software in Linux on a Virtual Machine. The course concludes with a project where you will create your
own build system and firmware that can manipulate memory. The second course in this 2 course series , Embedded Softwar...
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Top reviews

SK

Oct 9, 2019

The course was excellent for me, as a beginner. Of course, the learning curve was steep and the assignments challenging, but I learnt a lot. Thanks you Coursera and University of Colorado, Boulder.

RV

May 30, 2019

Excellent course. Refreshed all my concepts of Embedded System programming after a long time. Very good introductory course for Campus freshmen who needs to start working on System SW Development.

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By Anthony S J

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Aug 6, 2024

This course is not an introduction to embedded systems software and development environments. This course does not teach you anything about programming embedded systems or embedded system development environments. It is barely a review of computer architecture and some very basic C programming concepts. The 2 programming assignments are for C on a full desktop/laptop computer and do not relate to embedded C programming. The course even has you download and setup a virtual Linux environment to complete the programming assignments when none of that will be used in embedded development. They recommend getting the TI MSP432 Launchpad dev board but is never used in this course and not in the follow on course.

By Ray S

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Dec 4, 2021

The course material is shoddy, the assignments ambiguous and some of the provided test code in the final assignment contain errors. 4 days after reporting the errors/asking for clarification (nothing in the assignment said to expect or fix errors) I had not received any response from the instructor or a moderator.

My employer paid for a plus subscription for several work related classes, I took this as a curiosity since it was effectively 'free to me' having completed the planned courses. Had I paid for it out of my own pocket I'd be asking for a refund as the class seems to have been dumped on Coursera and then abandoned.

By Astitwa R

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Jun 18, 2020

I can assure you that if you are a beginner and thinking to get knowledge about the subject and learn something useful than u are at a very wrong place. If you are from India just go to NPTEL channel on youtube and learn from there because this course is a package of unnecessary high-level things without any explanation.

the professor will explain some topics well like memory management but will not explain about the practical codes (which are useless) he will write not even a bit.

So don't waste ur time just enrol in some other course or as mentioned learn on youtube.

By Eric S

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Jan 22, 2021

There is no way to unenroll from this course. No way to contact anyone. The help center mentions an outdated method that no longer works. Do not enroll in a course here, unless you are certain that it's a course you want to take. The only way I have found is to cancel my subscription.

By JINA G

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Apr 22, 2024

Explanation is very minimal.