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Home>Courses>The Ultimate Guide to Rust Programming

The Ultimate Guide to Rust Programming

A complete guide to programming with the Rust programming language, targeted at new and experienced programmers alike.

Intermediate

167 Lessons

9h

Certificate of Completion

A complete guide to programming with the Rust programming language, targeted at new and experienced programmers alike.

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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 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 o...Show More

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...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

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Course Content

1.

Welcome to Begin Rust

2 Lessons

2.

Hello World and variables

9 Lessons

What Does That Mean?

Multiple Variables and Shadowing

3.

Anatomy of Rust

10 Lessons

Pairing and Nesting

Expressions, Values, and Types

Variables, Again

Effects Versus Results

Blocks and Statements

4.

Functions

10 Lessons

Hello World, Again

Function Parameters

Function Results

Multiple Parameters

Variable and Parameter Scope

Anatomy of a Function

Calling Functions

Is main Special?

5.

Booleans

9 Lessons

Comparison Operators

Functions Returning Booleans

The Not Operator

Not-ing Other Comparison Operators

6.

Conditionals

8 Lessons

A Note on Semicolons

Evaluating to Values

Factorial and Recursion

7.

Mutable variables and while loops

11 Lessons

While Expressions/Loops

Failed Attempt: Shadowing

Almost Correct: Assignment

More Than Once!

Mutation and Shadowing

Let Without Assignment

8.

Structs and ownership

11 Lessons

All This Fruit!

Call Another Function

Ownership and Moving

Increasing Fruit

Upper and Lower Case

9.

References

11 Lessons

Mutable References

What's In a Reference?

Lifetimes of References

Mutating and Borrowing

Multiple References

Single Mutable Reference

Mutable to Immutable

10.

Methods

11 Lessons

Hello Method Calls!

Side Note: Underscores in Numbers

Negative Numbers are Annoying

Hello Method Implementations!

Methods by Reference

Method Call Chaining

11.

Strings

13 Lessons

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

8 Lessons

The Relation to String Slices

Slicing a Slice

13.

Type parameters

6 Lessons

Parameterized Structs

Parameterized Functions

Parameterized impl Blocks

14.

Traits

13 Lessons

Parameterized Fruit

Clone and Derive

Copy and Marker Traits

Partial Equal, Partial Order

Using Traits From std

Multiple Bounds

Associated Types

15.

Enums

10 Lessons

Pattern Matching

Commas and Braces

Methods for Enums

Optional Results

Capturing with Match

16.

Iterators and for loops

11 Lessons

Inclusive Range Expressions

Iterating Over a Vec

Arrays and Slices

Iterating on Strings

Generic Iterator Functions

17.

Early exit

10 Lessons

Time for a Break

Replacing For With While

Returning The Favor

Let Me Ask You a Question

Failing With Style

18.

What’s next?

4 Lessons

Install Rust on Your Local Machine

Do More Exercises

Course Author

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