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Reverse Engineering (mytechnotalent)

A free, English lesson index by mytechnotalent that grows almost daily: 490 numbered lessons, most of which have learners write small programs and then debug and patch ("hack") them, across x86, x64, 32/64-bit ARM, RISC-V and AVR. Early courses start from number systems, registers, memory and the stack; later ones cover microcontroller firmware on Raspberry Pi Pico/Pico 2, STM32F401, ESP32-C3, ATmega328P and micro:bit boards, plus Windows, Go, Rust and WebAssembly programs. The README is a table of links; the lesson text lives in a GitBook and in the author's other repositories and PDF books.

Requirements and limitations

  • At reviewed commit 8ae661a (pushed 2026-10-18) the README lists 490 numbered lessons in 26 courses and headlines a dated "Today's Tutorial" (Lesson 329, 18 October 2026); the default branch has received commits on most recent days. Lesson 1 describes the x86 course as starting from the basic concepts of malware reverse engineering and working up to an entry-level look at assembly, while later courses assume that grounding. The Reverse Engineering Data course (lessons 461–490) is statistics and machine-learning notebooks, not binary analysis.
  • No third-party target files are needed: most courses follow a write, debug, then patch pattern on programs the learner builds from the lessons. The embedded courses need physical boards (Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico 2/RP2350, STM32F401CCU6, ESP32-C3, ATmega328P, micro:bit), and the RISC-V course says it lists everything to purchase. The repository root also keeps Fritzing schematics and a few Windows MASM/Visual Studio example projects with their Debug builds.
  • Toolchains are set out in the linked material rather than the README, which mentions GDB in the x86 course, a Linux install lesson and PlatformIO for the ESP32-C3. Most of lessons 1–203 point to the "Reverse Engineering For Everyone!" GitBook by @mytechnotalent (built by @0xInfection); later lessons point to PDF books and lesson files in the author's separate repositories, which move independently and are not pinned by this record.
  • This collection reviewed the README index and repository tree only; it did not work through lessons or review the linked books, repositories, CTFs or their licenses. The README's "Reverse Engineering Assistant" (REA) link is the author's own mytechnotalent/rea tool, not the upstream REA project, so no REA connection is established. The repository is Apache-2.0; linked books and repositories carry their own terms.

About this entry

Type
Learning resource
Category
Learning resources
Relationship
Learning resource
Targets
Binary · Firmware

Sources reviewed

The description was reviewed against primary sources. This does not establish runtime testing, security auditing or verified compatibility.

Primary sources

  1. README.md GitHub · mytechnotalent/Reverse-Engineering · Revision 8ae661a
  2. README.md#L136-L178 GitHub · mytechnotalent/Reverse-Engineering · Revision 8ae661a
  3. https://github.com/mytechnotalent/Reverse-Engineering/tree/8ae661a1cf37fb17afc29981d424f1656dc7741b
  4. LICENSE GitHub · mytechnotalent/Reverse-Engineering · Revision 8ae661a
  5. https://0xinfection.github.io/reversing/
  6. README.md GitHub · mytechnotalent/rea · Revision a2f8a15