FreeRTOS on Raspberry PI PICO (Udemy.com)

The instructor is just another boring teacher from your college. he lacks the ability to get your attention or even maintain it. His tone is unchangeable for the whole course. And what is most disturbing is the way he pronounces words is more like vomiting! For the content, it is literarily another uni class. No hands on, No video, and No step by step if you want to implement.

I worked as as a bare metal embedded developer for many years. Now I want start using RTOS on my hobby projects. In an effort to fast track my learning experience I enrolled in these excellent Udemy courses: Introduction to C Development Environment for Raspberry PICO FreeRTOS on Raspberry PI PICO IoT with Raspberry PI Pico W (C++) Web Service Clients on Raspberry Pi Pico W(C++) by Dr Jon Durrant

Clearly explained, with a good level of detail. As a firmware developer with 30+ years of experience, I've been watching at 2x, and appreciate Jon's perspective in settings up development environment for Pico, and the various gotchas.

All of Dr. Jon's courses are good, and this is just another example.

Really enjoyed this course. FWIW, I originally began some programming with the old ARM in the late 80s. I got away from programming for quite a while and I am in retirement. To execrcise my brain began to jump back into programming with a PI and jumped over to the Pico. Never really got into C++ as most of my work was done in C. I found the C++ implementations while elegant, a bit tedious to work through and , for me, tended to complicate the interface to the FReeRTOS system. Consequently I rewrote most of the Code in straight C which made my understanding a lot simpler. It also necessitated delving into the documentation on the FreeRTOS sight, something I would strongly urge anyone to do. For anyone contemplating a entry into the subject, I would highly recommend this course as a great structure for learning.

This course is actually amazing. Just one suggestion to learners. Instructor has very nicely written code. What I suggest is, please try to 'rewrite' his code, which gives lots of insights on how you can program RTOS!! Thank you very much Dr. Jon!!

Really good introduction to FreeRTOS specifically and multi tasking and multi core communication on the Pico in general. Has clear code examples in github and explanations in video, and includes all of the course slides and support material.

Once I had sorted my .vscode environment in the "Introduction to C Deveopment" Course, I was able to follow this course in Visual Studio Code just by coping my standard .vscode folder into each of the source code project folders.

As with all of his courses, the support by Dr Durrant was outstanding. You don't buy an online course - you buy a class with a tutor who is responsive to individual questions. I'm completely new to FreeRTOS, but with the core concepts outlined here, I feel well equipped for my own projects.

Sehr zufrieden, guter Überblick zu FreeRTOS. Besonders gefallen hat mir, dass alle Beispiele auf Anhieb build und deploybar sind und auch funktionieren. Ich arbeite mit der Pico Debug Probe. Damit kann ich GPIO0/1 nicht als LED-Port verwenden. Zusätzlich muss in CMakeLists.txt UART als stdout freigegeben werden. Vielleicht kann das in zukünftigen Kursen beachtet werden. Ansonsten: Prima Kurs!