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

We’ve spoken about numbers and strings. In Rust, every value has a type that tells you what kind of thing it is. When you have a string literal (something between double quotes) like `"Hello, world!"`, its type is `&str`.

When you use `let` to declare a variable, you can give its type as well, like this:

fn main() {
    let name: &str = "Michael";
    println!("My name is {}", name);
}


Rust has something called type inference, which means that in many cases, you can skip putting in the type, and the compiler will figure it out for you. Sometimes though, we like to write the type out. It can make it easier to read code and can help the compiler better catch our mistakes. But usually, with simple things, we just skip it.

There’s a little bit more to talk about with numbers. The first thing is integers versus floating point numbers. Integers are whole numbers, like 5, -2, 0, etc. They are numbers that don’t have a decimal point or a fractional part. Floating point numbers can have decimal points. For now, we’re just going to talk about integers.

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?

Types