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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...

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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

1. Welcome to Begin Rust

2. Hello World and variables

What Does That Mean?

Multiple Variables and Shadowing

3. Anatomy of Rust

Pairing and Nesting

Expressions, Values, and Types

Variables, Again

Effects Versus Results

Blocks and Statements

4. Functions

Hello World, Again

Function Parameters

Function Results

Multiple Parameters

Variable and Parameter Scope

Anatomy of a Function

Calling Functions

Is main Special?

5. Booleans

Comparison Operators

Functions Returning Booleans

The Not Operator

Not-ing Other Comparison Operators

6. Conditionals

A Note on Semicolons

Evaluating to Values

Factorial and Recursion

7. Mutable variables and while loops

While Expressions/Loops

Failed Attempt: Shadowing

Almost Correct: Assignment

More Than Once!

Mutation and Shadowing

Let Without Assignment

8. Structs and ownership

All This Fruit!

Call Another Function

Ownership and Moving

Increasing Fruit

Upper and Lower Case

9. References

Mutable References

What's In a Reference?

Lifetimes of References

Mutating and Borrowing

Multiple References

Single Mutable Reference

Mutable to Immutable

10. Methods

Hello Method Calls!

Side Note: Underscores in Numbers

Negative Numbers are Annoying

Hello Method Implementations!

Methods by Reference

Method Call Chaining

11. Strings

Bits, Bytes, and Memory

Dynamically Sized Types

Lifetimes of String Literals

The Type of Owned Strings

Borrowing a String

A Better Person

The format! Macro

12. Arrays, Vecs, and slices

The Relation to String Slices

Slicing a Slice

13. Type parameters

Parameterized Structs

Parameterized Functions

Parameterized impl Blocks

14. Traits

Parameterized Fruit

Clone and Derive

Copy and Marker Traits

Partial Equal, Partial Order

Using Traits From std

Multiple Bounds

Associated Types

15. Enums

Pattern Matching

Commas and Braces

Methods for Enums

Optional Results

Capturing with Match

16. Iterators and for loops

Inclusive Range Expressions

Iterating Over a Vec

Arrays and Slices

Iterating on Strings

Generic Iterator Functions

17. Early exit

Time for a Break

Replacing For With While

Returning The Favor

Let Me Ask You a Question

Failing With Style

18. What’s next?

Install Rust on Your Local Machine

Do More Exercises

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