Rust

An introductory course covering Rust’s core concepts. Rust is a systems language that guarantees memory safety without a garbage collector through its ownership model.

Course outline

• Basics - installation, hello world, variables, types, functions
• Ownership & Borrowing - ownership, borrowing, references, slices
• Structs, Enums & Patterns - structs, enums, pattern matching
• Error Handling - Result, Option, the ? operator
• Traits & Generics - traits, generics, lifetimes

Resources

• The Rust Book
• Rust by Example
• Rustlings exercises
• Standard library docs

Install

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
rustup update

cargo new hello_world
cargo build
cargo run
cargo test