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Building a Toy OS Kernel in Rust

6 weeks
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Jul 23

Memory management and interrupt handling at the lowest level: with Rust's safety guarantees. This comprehensive curriculum is designed to give you hands-on experience with Building a Toy OS Kernel in Rust.

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About this Course

Memory management and interrupt handling at the lowest level: with Rust's safety guarantees. This comprehensive curriculum is designed to give you hands-on experience with Building a Toy OS Kernel in Rust. This Systems Programmers & Rust Enthusiasts curriculum is designed to give you hands-on experience and deep conceptual understanding. Across 6 intensive modules, you'll tackle real-world challenges and build practical projects that reinforce your learning. By the end of this journey, you'll have the skills and proof of work to demonstrate your expertise.

What you'll learn

Master the core concepts of freestanding rust binary & bare metal setup.
Gain hands-on experience with vga text mode & serial port drivers.
Understand the architecture behind interrupts, idt & programmable interrupt controller (pic).
Implement production-grade memory management: paging & heap allocation.

Prerequisites

intermediate Level

Requires basic familiarity with the tech stack.

  • Basic Rust syntax (ownership)
  • C/C++ memory concepts (pointers)
  • Operating System fundamentals

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Systems Programmers & Rust Enthusiasts

Systems Engineers
W1

Freestanding Rust Binary & Bare Metal Setup

Master the core concepts of freestanding rust binary & bare metal setup.

3 videos36m
3 readings
3 topics
1 homework
Learn

Topics

1.1
Freestanding Rust & no_std Environment
11 minutes
1.2
Target Specifications & Cross-Compilation
9 minutes
1.3
QEMU Setup & Multiboot Bootloader
16 minutes
W2

VGA Text Mode & Serial Port Drivers

Gain hands-on experience with vga text mode & serial port drivers.

3 videos99m
3 readings
3 topics
1 homework
Learn
W3

Interrupts, IDT & Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC)

Understand the architecture behind interrupts, idt & programmable interrupt controller (pic).

3 videos91m
3 readings
3 topics
1 homework
Learn
W4

Memory Management: Paging & Heap Allocation

Implement production-grade memory management: paging & heap allocation.

3 videos31m
2 readings
3 topics
1 homework
Learn
W5

Preemptive Multitasking & Context Switching

Implement thread contexts, timer interrupts for scheduling, and context switching.

2 videos57m
3 readings
2 topics
1 homework
Learn
W6

User Space & System Calls

Transition to Ring 3 and implement basic system calls.

2 videos26m
2 readings
2 topics
1 homework
Learn
01

Learn

Watch curated videos and read study resources

02

Practice

Practice what you learned

03

Build Projects

Build projects using your new gained knowledge

04

Submit & Verify

Submit your project and get verified by our system

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