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.

The Ultimate Guide to Rust Programming

Do you want to learn how to program? Do you want to learn Rust? Do you have no idea what those questions mean but are still interested? Awesome! You’re in the right place.

_The Ultimate Guide to Rust Programming_ was created for people of all experience levels to get up and running with programming in the Rust programming language. Don’t know what programming, languages, or Rust are? That’s fine. We’ll be addressing all of those questions later. Age-wise, this course is geared towards young teenagers and up. It should be fine for adults too.

_The Ultimate Guide to Rust Programming_ was originally written as an eBook, but we’ve adapted it to work on the Educative platform. We hope that this will make it even easier for people to get started with Rust.


Welcome to Begin Rust

Hello World and variables

Anatomy of Rust

Functions

Booleans

Conditionals

Mutable variables and while loops

Structs and ownership

References

Methods

Strings

Arrays, Vecs, and slices

Type parameters

Traits

Enums

Iterators and for loops

Early exit

What’s next?

Introduction