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

It may seem weird that this `None` propagation thing is considered so important in Rust that it gets its own special `?` thingy. But here’s the next piece in the puzzle: `?` works for more than just `Option`. A very common thing to do in real world programmers is to deal with errors. Let’s get a nice example to make sense of that.

Let’s say I’m running the ticket booth for a roller coaster. Families come up, and I need to figure out how much it will cost them to ride. The rule is:

  - 18 years old and under cost 5

  - 19 years old to 65 years old cost 8

  - 66 years old and up cost 7

However, there’s one more thing, no one under 10, or shorter than 80 centimeters, can ride. Let’s first write a data type and function that figures out the price for a single person:

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?

Failing With Style