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

  - You are allowed to borrow references to values

  - Borrowing a reference does not move ownership

  - Borrowing is the preferred way to solve the "move in move out" problem we encountered previously

  - References have their own type, and `i32` is different than `&i32`

  - We also have mutable references such as `&mut i32`, which allow the values behind the reference to be changed

  - Mutable references can only be borrowed from mutable values

  - References are, essentially, addresses for where the original value lives in memory

  - If you want to operate directly on the value behind a reference, you can dereference using the `*` operator

  - A reference cannot outlive the value it refers to

  - To avoid confusion around mutation and references, Rust has some rules you need to abide by
    
      - You cannot mutate a value if there is a reference to it
    
      - You can have multiple immutable references to a value
    
      - You can only have one mutable reference to a value, and then no other immutable references to it, or access the value directly

  - You can create an immutable reference from a mutable reference, but not the other way around.


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?

Summary