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I'd love to follow along, but I don't see a parts list to get the matching parts.

Assignment zero lists the following parts:

    1 Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B)
    1 1⁄2-sized breadboard
    1 4GiB microSD card
    1 microSD card USB adapter
    1 CP2102 USB TTL adapter w/4 jumper cables
    10 multicolored LEDs
    4 100 ohm resistors
    4 1k ohm resistors
    10 male-male DuPont jumper cables
    10 female-male DuPont jumper cables

Yes, I saw that, but it'd be nice to get the exact same components if possible. It'd be even nicer if the same pack the students got was available from their source.

What do you mean by exact same components? Cables are pretty much cables, LEDs are LEDs, resistors are resistors, and a Raspberry Pi is a Raspberry Pi. Other than the Pi, brand names don't really matter too much in this space.

I'm haven't done any electronics stuff before, so I didn't know that.

That list is a bit under-specified for an absolute newbie to electronics. A link to Digikey or Mouser would be helpful. A resistor just isn't a resistor, for example. I imagine they really mean a 1/4 watt 5% tolerance thru-hole resistor for use on the breadboard, for example. Someone who orders a surface mount 0402 1k resistor is in for trouble...

Oh hey, so it's actually a course in operating systems combined with embedded programming? That's really neat!

I'm not sure I'd consider a system running full blown Linux with self hosted development tools, graphical environment and so on to be a typical embedded system.

Edit: I suppose they may not be running Linux on the Pi, certainly not the graphical variants on a 4GB card.

Not sure where you are getting that info... but xfce is just above 2gb. You could easily run a graphical desktop on that.

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