Free online course - Embedded Systems

Is there a schedule for this course? I can’t seem to find one. Just wondering what the recommended pace is and what point in the modules I should be at for this week.

From Course Info (scroll down to January 21, 2015

Suggested schedule

By Friday 1/30: Finish Chapters C1 and C2 (install Keil, TExaS)
By Friday 2/6: Finish Chapters C3 and C4 (electronics and digital logic)
By Friday 2/13: Finish Chapter C5 (C programming)
By Friday 2/20: Finish Chapter C6 (I/O ports)
By Friday 2/27: Finish Chapter C7 (Design)
By Friday 3/6: Finish Chapter C8 (Interfacing switches and LEDs), ready Feb 1
By Friday 3/13: Finish Chapter C9 (How to debug), ready Feb 1
By Friday 3/20: Finish Chapter C10 (Finite state machine), ready Feb 1
By Friday 3/27: Finish Chapter C11 (Serial port interface), ready Feb 1
By Friday 4/3: Finish Chapter C12 (Interrupts), ready Feb 1
By Friday 4/10: Finish Chapter C13 (DAC and sound), ready Feb 1
By Friday 4/17: Finish Chapter C14 (ADC and measurements), ready Feb 1
By Friday 4/24: Start Chapter C15 (Hand-held game), ready March 1
By Friday 5/1: Finish Chapter C15 (Hand-held game), ready March 1
By Friday 5/8: Finish Chapter C16 (wifi and IoT), ready March 1
Course closes Wednesday 5/13

Thanks!

SFU Library has a copy of the book. Maybe you can borrow it.

Looks like it has mixed reviews on amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Embedded-Systems-Introduction-Arm�-Cortex/dp/1477508996
Good for concepts but not so great for code examples.

Please keep it legit guys.

Links to online booksellers are okay, but please don’t link/refer to illegal sources.

@TyIsI Who is talking about illegal sources? I asked about pdf/epub format as I dont like to support proprietary formats like kindle. You should not make assumptions.

No, before I edited my comment I made a reference about an illegal source (no link) and we both got ding’d.

Anybody getting together this week? I can be at VHS Tue from ~7:15 until 9. Also, Thur we are getting together to divvy up parts for the Piccolo’s, so I will be there then.

So far it’s just been reviewing basics but I wouldn’t mind going over the simulator, I think there are a few aspects I’m overlooking.

I’ll be there tomorrow Tuesday. I’m on C5 now, but I can help you with the simulator and the “missing grading button” issue with the real-board tests.

Greetings, @3bien @packetbob @Gonazar @alchemistletoe @Daniel_DeGagne @hectorh @seanhagen @wander ! So are many people still working their way through the course? If not, I’d be curious what the reasons might be - I’m mulling over trying to do something similar but much simpler for the Arduino and it’d be interesting to know what does and doesn’t work.

If you are still working on it, any interest in getting together at some point?

Also, it’s short notice, but @hectorh has a TI order going in tomorrow, in case anyone wants to order the wi-fi module.

I started with good intentions but didn’t really get going on it…

I did the first 9 chapters fairly quickly. I’m starting to work on the lab for chapter 13 (DAC and sound) now, so I’m still slightly ahead of the schedule, but I suspect I’m going to fall behind soon.

I would be interested in getting together

Complete cock-up, stuck in the first section. Time constraints, etc.

So, when the course ends, do we all lose access to the notes and videos?

It depends on the instructors, they may opt to let the course be available in “Archived” form.

Detail: The course closes Wednesday May 13. (oh nvm, redundant repetition)

I haven’t touched this in over a month but now my other classes are out of the way. I’m shooting for completing all 16 chapters. Though recall that only 9 are necessary for completion, but I assume most people are into this for the learning and marks and such are incidental.

Is anyone else looking at the other things edx has to offer? This site is great.

Has anyone found that the buttons I put in the bags are really inadequate?

I’ve signed up for a whack-load of courses (and this is the first one I may actually complete!), and I would say that for 90% the materials are available many months afterwards. Usually you lose the ability to have tests marked, or special access to Matlab or whatever, but the bulk of the material is there.

One quirk of all this is that you can only sign up before or during a course’s “live” time. So I would recommend signing up for things that look interesting, even if you don’t have time, just to get access. And as yet there’s no penalty for being a lurker.

This edX course has been just the right level for me. I’ve found the Coursera site has even more courses. Level of difficulty varies wildly, and it’s often hard to judge until the course starts.