The Ultimate Guide to Rust Programming

Takeaway Skills

Learn to work with variables and arrays of various data types

Learn to use conditional statements

Learn to code iterative programs using loops

Learn to work with enums, structs and traits

Learn how to use references

Learn to work with variables and arrays of various data types

Learn to use conditional statements

Learn to code iterative programs using loops

Learn to work with enums, structs and traits

Learn how to use references

Course Overview

Rust is quickly becoming one of the most popular languages. With a strong basis as a systems and embedded language, its clean design and ergonomics makes it an emerging choice for general purpose programming tasks as well. This course will be your guide to the fundamentals of programmi... See More

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Hands-on coding environments

You don’t get better at swimming by watching others. Coding is no different. Practice as you learn with live code environments inside your browser.

Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

No set-up required

Start learning immediately instead of fiddling with SDKs and IDEs. It‘s all on the cloud.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Welcome to Begin Rust

Introduction

Instructions

2. Hello World and variables

Hello World

What Does That Mean?

Interpolation

Variables

More Math!

Multiple Variables and Shadowing

Types

Summary

Exercises

3. Anatomy of Rust

Introduction

Pairing and Nesting

Layout

Comments

Expressions, Values, and Types

Variables, Again

Effects Versus Results

Blocks and Statements

Summary

Exercises

4. Functions

Hello World, Again

Function Parameters

Function Results

Multiple Parameters

Variable and Parameter Scope

Anatomy of a Function

Calling Functions

Is main Special?

Summary

Exercises

5. Booleans

Equality

Assertions

Comparison Operators

Functions Returning Booleans

The Not Operator

Not-ing Other Comparison Operators

And/Or

Summary

Exercises

6. Conditionals

Hello If

A Note on Semicolons

Else

Else If

Evaluating to Values

Factorial and Recursion

Summary

Exercises

7. Mutable variables and while loops

While Expressions/Loops

Failed Attempt: Shadowing

Almost Correct: Assignment

More Than Once!

Counting

Sum

Nested Loops

Mutation and Shadowing

Let Without Assignment

Summary

Exercises

8. Structs and ownership

All This Fruit!

Struct

Call Another Function

Ownership and Moving

Copy Values

Make a Copy

Move Out!

Increasing Fruit

Upper and Lower Case

Summary

Exercises

9. References

Borrow

Mutable References

What's In a Reference?

Deref

Lifetimes of References

Mutating and Borrowing

Multiple References

Single Mutable Reference

Mutable to Immutable

Summary

Exercises

10. Methods

Hello Method Calls!

Type Inference

Side Note: Underscores in Numbers

Negative Numbers are Annoying

Hello Method Implementations!

Methods by Reference

Static Methods

The Self Type

Method Call Chaining

Summary

Exercises

11. Strings

Bits, Bytes, and Memory

Dynamically Sized Types

Program Memory

Lifetimes of String Literals

Owned Strings

The Type of Owned Strings

Moving Strings

Borrowing a String

A Better Person

The format! Macro

Freeing

Summary

Exercises

12. Arrays, Vecs, and slices

Arrays

Indexing

Slices

The Relation to String Slices

Vec

Slicing a Slice

Summary

Exercises

13. Type parameters

Parameterized Structs

Parameterized Functions

Parameterized impl Blocks

Turbofish!

Summary

Exercises

14. Traits

Double Double

Trait Bounds

Parameterized Fruit

Display

Clone and Derive

Copy and Marker Traits

Debug

Partial Equal, Partial Order

Using Traits From std

Multiple Bounds

Associated Types

Summary

Exercises

15. Enums

Get Me a Job

Using Variants

Pattern Matching

Commas and Braces

More Teachers

Methods for Enums

Optional Results

Capturing with Match

Summary

Exercises

16. Iterators and for loops

Count to 10

Iterators

Inclusive Range Expressions

Iterating Over a Vec

IntoIterator

The Rule of 3

Arrays and Slices

Iterating on Strings

Generic Iterator Functions

Summary

Exercises

17. Early exit

Time for a Break

Go On...

Replacing For With While

Returning The Favor

Salaries

Let Me Ask You a Question

Failing With Style

Errors in main

Summary

Exercises

18. What’s next?

Install Rust on Your Local Machine

Do More Exercises

Get Involved

Thank you!