Resources for learning embedded systems

This is my personal collection of (free) resources that I find useful, insightful, or simply interesting while learning embedded systems. It’s still small, but I’ll keep expanding it over time. 😄

🗂️ Legend: 📝 Short reads · 📖 Books · 🧩 Exercises · 🛠️ Tools · 🎬 Videos

Table Of Contents

Programming

📖 Competitive Programmer’s Handbook, Antti Laaksonen
🧩 Exercism My favorite platform for programming exercises across many languages, with free mentor reviews.
📖 🎬 The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Modern C++

📖 Modern C++ Programming, Federico Busato
📝 Modern CPP features: C++23/20/17/14/11
📖 C++ Core Guidelines, Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter 📖 Collection of slides from CppNow presentations

Rust

📖 Rust Book

Assembly and reverse engineering

📝 ARM Reverse Engineering Notes
📖 Compiling to Assembly from Scratch, Vladimir Keleshev (ARM)
📝 FFmpeg School of Assembly Language (x86)

Operating systems

📖 Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces Best intro to operating systems
📝 A fork() in the road Why fork() is bad and what can be used instead
🎬 Introduction to Zephyr by Shawn Hymel

Compilers

📝 A Compiler Writing Journey
📝 Beginner’s Guide to Linkers

Embedded

🎬 Embedded System Project Series | Artful Bytes
📝 Don’t use Arduino for professional work
📝 Bare metal programming guide

Computer Architecture

📝 Memory Management Reference
📖 What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory, Ulrich Drepper
🎬 Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care | code::dive conference 2014 | Youtube
🎬 The Engineering that Runs the Digital World | How CPUs Work
📖 Programming from the Ground Up | Jonathan Bartlett

Tools

🛠️ cmake-init The must-have tool for initializing CMake based projects. Adds UT, CI/CD, linters etc.
🛠️ Wokwi Online simulator for Arduino AVR, ESP32, STM32, Pi Pico.

Security

📖 Embedded Application Security Best Practices
📝 Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++

Linux

🎬 Systemd Explained: How to Manage Linux Services Easily