Rust Essential Training

This course offers an introduction to Rust, a popular open-source systems programming language that focuses on speed, memory safety, and parallelism.

Introduction

• Learn Rust programming
• What you should know
• What is Rust?
• Rust versions

1. Write Your First Program

• Installing Rust on Windows
• Installing Rust on Linux and macOS
• Anatomy of a Rust program
• Adding comments
• Building programs using Cargo

2. Primitive Data Types

• Declaring variables
• Integer data types
• Floating-point data types
• Arithmetic operations
• Formatting print statements
• Bitwise operations
• Boolean data type and operations
• Comparison operations
• Char data types
• Challenge: Find the average
• Solution: Find the average

3. Compound Data Types

• Arrays
• Multidimensional arrays
• Tuples

4. Functions

• Function parameters
• Statements vs. expressions
• Function return values
• Challenge: Convert temperature
• Solution: Convert temperature

5. Program Flow Control

• Conditional execution
• Multiple conditions
• Conditional assignment
• Loops
• While loops
• For loops
• Nested loops
• Challenge: Max, min, mean
• Solution: Max, min, mean

6. Ownership

• Variable scope
• Shadowing variables
• Stack and heap memory
• String data type
• Ownership
• Moving, cloning, and copying data
• Transferring ownership

7. References

• Borrowing references
• Mutable references
• Dangling references
• Slices
• Slices as function parameters
• Challenge: Trim spaces
• Solution: Trim spaces

8. Modules

• Rust Standard Library and prelude
• Standard input
• Parse strings
• Crates
• Challenge: Higher or lower
• Solution: Higher or lower

9. Input and Output

• Command-line arguments
• Reading from files
• Writing to files
• Challenge: Check the roster
• Solution: Check the roster

10. Structs

• Defining structs
• Struct update syntax
• Struct methods
• Associated functions
• Tuple structs
• Challenge: Represent shapes
• Solution: Represent shapes

11. Generic Types

• Generic struct definitions
• Generic method definitions
• Generic function definitions
• Box data type
• Challenge: Sum boxes
• Solution: Sum boxes

12. Traits

• Implement traits
• Default trait implementation
• Derive traits
• Trait bounds
• Multiple trait bounds
• Return types with implemented traits
• Challenge: Implement the display trait
• Solution: Implement the display trait

13. Lifetimes

• The borrow checker
• Lifetime annotation syntax
• Multiple lifetime annotations
• Lifetime elision rules
• Struct lifetime annotations
• Static lifetime

14. Enums

• Define enums
• Match operator
• Match with default placeholder
• Enum methods
• Option enum
• Matching Option
• If-let syntax
• Challenge: Represent a location
• Solution: Represent a location

15. Error Handling

• Unrecoverable errors
• Result enum
• Matching Result to recover from errors
• Propagating errors
• Challenge: Handle errors
• Solution: Handle errors

16. Collections

• Vectors
• HashMaps
• Challenge: Count words
• Solution: Count words

Conclusion

• Where to go next