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Rust Brain Teasers

Explore Rust’s unique features with 24 brain-teasing puzzles. Gain insights into Rust concepts, enhancing your skills and preparing for advanced topics after completing the course.

Beginner

50 Lessons

2h 50min

Certificate of Completion

Explore Rust’s unique features with 24 brain-teasing puzzles. Gain insights into Rust concepts, enhancing your skills and preparing for advanced topics after completing the course.

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This course includes

57 Playgrounds

24 Quizzes

Course Overview

What You'll Learn

Course Content

Course Overview

This course provides insights into Rust’s unique features by exploring them in 24 brain-teasing puzzles. Each puzzle is explained in its following lesson. Complete all 24, and by the time you’re done, your knowledge about different concepts in Rust will definitely be improved, and you will be ready to move on to more advanced concepts.

What You'll Learn

Learn some finer details about how strings are represented in Rust.

Learn how Rust ensures safety guarantees that help you write effective code.

Learn how to change the compiler’s strictness level.

Learn some of floating-point representation’s stumbling blocks.

Learn how mutability and borrowing work in Rust.

Learn some finer details about how strings are represented in Rust.

Course Content

Introduction

1 Lessons

Get familiar with Rust through brain teasers and improve your programming skills.

What Is This Course About?

Puzzles

48 Lessons

Discover the logic behind solving Rust puzzles while understanding precision, type conversion, memory, and async operations.

Puzzle 1: Three and a Bit

Puzzle 1: Explanation

Puzzle 2: Non-standard Input

Puzzle 2: Explanation

Puzzle 3: Type Conversion

Puzzle 3: Explanation

Puzzle 4: Byte-sized Chunks

Puzzle 4: Explanation

Puzzle 5: How Long Is a String?

Puzzle 5: Explanation

Puzzle 6: Please Reboot the Universe

Puzzle 6: Explanation

Puzzle 7: Three and Back Again

Puzzle 7: Explanation

Puzzle 8: Walks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck

Puzzle 8: Explanation

Puzzle 9: Out of Order

Puzzle 9: Explanation

Puzzle 10: X Marks the Spot

Puzzle 10: Explanation

Puzzle 11: Stacking Boxes

Puzzle 11: Explanation

Puzzle 12: Amnesia

Puzzle 12: Explanation

Puzzle 13: Reverse the Polarity of the Neutron Flow

Puzzle 13: Explanation

Puzzle 14: Structure Sizing

Puzzle 14: Explanation

Puzzle 15: To Infinity

Puzzle 15: Explanation

Puzzle 16: Double or Nothing

Puzzle 16: Explanation

Puzzle 17: How Long is a Vector?

Puzzle 17: Explanation

Puzzle 18: Mutable Immutables

Puzzle 18: Explanation

Puzzle 19: Sleepless in Tokio

Puzzle 19: Explanation

Puzzle 20: Hello, Bonjour

Puzzle 20: Explanation

Puzzle 21: Tying a Gordian Knot

Puzzle 21: Explanation

Puzzle 22: Waiting for Godot

Puzzle 22: Explanation

Puzzle 23: Constant Loops

Puzzle 23: Explanation

Puzzle 24: Home on the Range

Puzzle 24: Explanation

Wrapping it up

1 Lessons

Examine the key takeaways and next steps for mastering Rust with continuous practice.

Conclusion

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