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

When to use upper case and when to use lower case in Rust is guided by pretty strong conventions. Convention here means that you’re not _forced_ to do it, but it’s widely accepted that you should follow these rules.

  - Variable and function names start with a lower case. If you have multiple words, you separate them with an underscore. For example, `first_name`. This is known as "snake case" because it’s kind of like a snake slithering on the ground.

  - Types (besides primitives like `i32` and `str`) should start with a capital letter, and each new word should have another capital letter. For example, `FirstName`. This is known as "upper camel case," since it starts with an upper case and each new word kind of looks like a camel’s hump.

If you use the wrong capitalization scheme, you’ll get a warning from the compiler encouraging you to change it.


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?

Upper and Lower Case