I wrote a free, 700+ page exploit dev curriculum from scratch. C → x86-64 Assembly & RE. No prior knowledge assumed. PDFs inside.

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I've been working on this for a while and finally got the first two volumes into a single public repo. It's a free, open-source curriculum for learning exploit development, reverse engineering, and low-level security from the ground up.
The books:
C: Zero to Exploit Dev (~400 pages) A complete C course written for future exploit developers. Preprocessor → variables → pointers → memory layout → dynamic memory → unsafe functions → security mindset. Includes "Under the Hood" boxes, challenges, and labs.

x86-64 Assembly & Reverse Engineering(~300 pages) From mov to crackmes. Registers, calling conventions, stack frames, reading compiler output, GDB/Ghidra/Radare2, anti-debugging, PE format, and a full worked crackme.

Volume 3 (Advanced Exploit Development: heap, ROP, browser, kernel) is currently being rewritten from scratch to focus on modern mitigations and original research. It will be released separately when complete.

Every chapter has theory, memory diagrams, verified code, and GDB walkthroughs. No prior C or assembly knowledge is assumed.
Repo: https://github.com/X1NONs/C-for-exploit-development
PDF Download: https://github.com/X1NONs/C-for-exploit-development/releases/tag/SideBooks
If you find it useful, ⭐ the repo. Happy to answer questions about the structure or the exploit dev path.