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

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

Traits show up so much in Rust that we’ve already mentioned them multiple times in our previous lessons. It’s time to finally dive into this topic. We’ll start off with some simpler examples of traits. Then, we’ll get into some stronger motivation for using traits, focusing on some limitations we cleverly avoided with type parameters previously.

Let's say I want to write a function that can double both `i32`s and `i64`s. I’m going to start off by using the ugly "add the type to the name" approach and end up with two functions:

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?

Double Double