Gain insights into Rust programming fundamentals, explore its syntax, ownership, and type system, and delve into core components like memory management, traits, and generics to enhance your skills.

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

Earlier, we declared a `Person` struct as:

struct Person {
    name: &'static str,
    age: i32,
}


This is incredibly limiting. Only string literals can produce a  `&str` with a `'static` lifetime. Therefore, this `Person` can only store names that are written as string literals and known when you’re writing your program. We could try to store a string reference with a different lifetime parameter, but it gets tricky. What lifetime parameter should it have? And who owns that data?

In most real-life Rust code, you don’t want to store references inside a struct. It makes it too difficult to deal with lifetimes of values. Instead, we tend to prefer putting owned values in there instead. So, a better `Person` would use a `String` for the `name`. For example:

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?

A Better Person