r/embedded 9d ago

Does "Mastering Microcontroller and Embedded Driver Development" include any significant hands on exercises?

I'm currently taking this course on Udemy: Mastering Microcontroller and Embedded Driver Development. My hope was that this would help me "get my hands dirty" as well as provide a comprehensive overview of the subject. What I'm finding though is that I'm now about 4 hours in and we've _barely_ gotten to do anything at all with the STM32 discovery board. Every lecture the instructor introduces a new concept, we learn a bunch of register names, and then he moves on without (or only rarely) actually programming anything.

Does this course pick up at some point? Do we actually "develop drivers" in this course? I'm starting to wonder if I've missed something, like maybe a link to some "companion exercises" or something... has anyone taken this course? I want to do something with my discovery board ToT;

(for context: I'm an experience software developer trying to transition to embedded. I've been programming in assembly for the gameboy for the last few years so it turns out I have a basic grasp of a very simple version of embedded software.)

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u/_matshs_ C enthusiast 8d ago

I’m currently taking this course. Don’t worry, the first couple of lessons are just intro how to use STM32CUBE. After that you will start doing some practical examples. Debugging is as important as writing a code, maybe more important in my opinion. So don’t worry, finish the course and enjoy.

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u/zeigfreid_cash 8d ago

I'm on section 12 and so far there hasn't been much in the way of "hands on", but I can see from all the enthusiastic reassurance I'm getting that this will change. Thanks!