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The Ultimate Guide to Rust Programming

Gain insights into Rust programming fundamentals, explore its syntax, ownership, and type system, and delve into core components like memory management, traits, and generics to enhance your skills.

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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 programming and Rust. Whether you have no experience or want to learn a new language, this is the place to start. In this course, you’ll start off with the basics of the Rust programming language, learning the syntax, the philosophy of the language, and the anatomy of Rust. With that in hand, you’ll move onto some of the more unique parts of Rust, such as expression-oriented programming, ownership, and its strong type system. In the latter half of the course, you’ll work through some of the core components of Rust such as references, memory management, mutability, traits, slices, and generics. By the time you finish, you’ll have the foundations in place to learn more advanced concepts and take your Rust programming to the next level.

Rust is quickly becoming one of the most popular languages. With a strong basis as a systems and embedded language, its clean de...Show More

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

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

Content

167 Lessons5 Quizzes22 Challenges

Welcome to Begin Rust

2 Lessons

Get familiar with Rust programming for all levels, emphasizing active participation and experimentation.

Introduction

Instructions

Hello World and variables

9 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of Rust programming with "Hello World," variables, and basic operations.

Multiple Variables and Shadowing

Types

Summary

Exercises

Anatomy of Rust

10 Lessons

Examine Rust's syntax, structure, readability, comments, expressions, variables, and practical coding exercises.

Expressions, Values, and Types

Variables, Again

Effects Versus Results

Blocks and Statements

Summary

Exercises

Functions

10 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of defining, calling, and utilizing functions in Rust effectively.

Variable and Parameter Scope

Anatomy of a Function

Booleans

9 Lessons

Dig into Rust's booleans, comparison operators, the assert macro, and logical functions.

Equality

Assertions

Comparison Operators

Functions Returning Booleans

The Not Operator

Not-ing Other Comparison Operators

And/Or

Summary

Exercises

Conditionals

8 Lessons

Tackle conditionals, boolean logic, recursion, and practical exercises in Rust programming.

Factorial and Recursion

Summary

Exercises

Mutable variables and while loops

11 Lessons

Master mutability and while loops in Rust, leveraging nested loops and avoiding common pitfalls.

While Expressions/Loops

Failed Attempt: Shadowing

Almost Correct: Assignment

More Than Once!

Counting

Sum

Nested Loops

Mutation and Shadowing

Let Without Assignment

Summary

Exercises

Structs and ownership

11 Lessons

Sharpen your skills in using structs and understanding ownership rules in Rust.

All This Fruit!

Struct

Call Another Function

References

11 Lessons

Get started with Rust's borrowing, mutable/immutable references, lifetimes, and dereferencing principles.

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

11 Lessons

Examine Rust methods, type inference, numerical readability, method chaining, and practical exercises.

Hello Method Calls!

Type Inference

Side Note: Underscores in Numbers

Negative Numbers are Annoying

Hello Method Implementations!

11.

Strings

13 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of Rust strings, memory management, ownership, and efficient string handling.

Bits, Bytes, and Memory

Dynamically Sized Types

Program Memory

Lifetimes of String Literals

Owned Strings

The Type of Owned Strings

12.

Arrays, Vecs, and slices

8 Lessons

Solve problems in managing arrays, slices, and vectors, with practical exercises.

Arrays

Indexing

Slices

The Relation to String Slices

Vec

Slicing a Slice

Summary

Exercises

13.

Type parameters

6 Lessons

Follow the process of using type parameters in Rust for structs, functions, and impl blocks.

Parameterized Structs

Parameterized Functions

Parameterized impl Blocks

Turbofish!

Summary

Exercises

14.

Traits

13 Lessons

Master the steps to use traits in Rust to define, implement, and manage shared behavior.

Copy and Marker Traits

Debug

Partial Equal, Partial Order

Using Traits From std

15.

Enums

10 Lessons

Learn how to use enums for type safety, pattern matching, and implementing methods in Rust.

16.

Iterators and for loops

11 Lessons

Get started with iterating in Rust, covering loops, iterators, ranges, and practical applications.

Count to 10

Iterators

Inclusive Range Expressions

Generic Iterator Functions

Summary

Exercises

17.

Early exit

10 Lessons

Examine early exit strategies in Rust, including `break`, `continue`, `return`, and `?` operator.

Time for a Break

Go On...

Replacing For With While

Returning The Favor

Salaries

Let Me Ask You a Question

18.

What’s next?

4 Lessons

Apply your skills to advancing Rust programming through installation, exercises, and community involvement.

Install Rust on Your Local Machine

Do More Exercises

Get Involved

Thank you!

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

Course Author:

Michael Snoyman and

Miriam Snoyman

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