Learn the basics of Rust programming from scratch, starting with the syntax, then moving to the core components of Rust.

Become a Rust Professional

In this module, we’ll start with the basics of the Rust programming language, and learn the syntax, philosophy, and the anatomy of Rust. With that in hand, we’ll move to some of the more unique parts of Rust, such as expression-oriented programming, ownership, and its robust type system.
In the latter half of the module, we’ll work through some of the core components of Rust, such as references, memory management, mutability, traits, slices, and generics.

The Ultimate Guide to Rust Programming

For this topic, we will start by learning about `struct`s, short for structures. `struct`s give us a way to create new types and to combine logically related data. This is a great launch point for introducing one of the most core concepts in all of Rust: ownership. Ownership is a Really Big Deal in Rust, and we’re just going to get our feet wet in this lesson.

One thing to know about this topic, you’re going to see a lot of annoying ways of doing things. Don’t worry, this is *not* the True Rust Way. For now, we will be setting up some pain points so that in later lessons, we can learn the real solutions to these problems.

Let’s say I sell fruit. I need to know how many apples and bananas I have. Since I’m a Rustacean, I write a program to tell me:

Hello World and variables

Anatomy of Rust

Functions

Boolean

Conditionals

Mutable variables and while loops

Structs and ownership

References

Methods

Strings

Arrays, Vecs, and slices

Traits

Enums

Iterators and for loops

Early exit

Appendix

Conclusion

All This Fruit!