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

  - Method calls are another type of expression, very similar to function and macro calls

  - Sometimes in Rust, such as with method calls, we have to help the compiler know exactly what type we’re using

  - We can be explicit about which integral type we want by putting the type at the end of the number, e.g., `5_i32`

  - We can stick underscores anywhere in a number literal we want, e.g., `80_000_000_u64`

  - The negative sign operator will be applied after method calls in general, but you can use parentheses to change the order in which it’s applied, e.g., `(-5_i32).abs()`

  - The first parameter in a method declaration must be `self`, `&self`, or `&mut self`

  - You can have static methods inside an `impl` block, called by `TypeName::method_name`

  - You can use the special type `Self` inside an `impl` block

  - You can chain method calls together to build more complex expressions


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