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

In *Ownership* and *References*, we’ve learned three fundamental concepts in Rust:

  - How to create our own data types using `struct`

  - How ownership and moving works

  - How to use references and mutable references

So far, we’ve demonstrated these concepts using functions. We pass ownership of a value from one function to another. Or we borrow a reference and pass that reference into a function.

There’s another concept in Rust that is very close to functions, called methods. We’re going to introduce methods now. We’ll see that they can sometimes be easier to use than functions.

When we learned about functions, we had two sides to the coin:

  - How do you *call* a function?

  - How do you *define* or *implement* a function?

We have the same two sides in Rust. We’ll first demonstrate what a method call looks like using some methods on types you’re already familiar with.

How long is the string `"Hello"`? You can count the letters and tell me 5. But programmers are lazy! Why should we do the work when the computer can do it instead? You might imagine that we’d have a `length` or `len` function. But it turns out we don’t. Instead, we have a `len` *method*:

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?

Hello Method Calls!