RUST · 22 lessons

Installing Rust, creating a cargo project and running your first program

Variable bindings, mutability, primitive types and type inference

Scalar and compound types, tuples and fixed-size arrays

Conditionals, loops and pattern matching with match

Defining functions, parameters, return types and expressions

Ownership rules, moves and the Copy/Clone traits

References, immutable and mutable borrows, and compile-time checks

Slice types and string/array slicing

Lifetime annotations and static lifetimes

Owned vs borrowed strings and conversion methods

Defining structs, creating instances, methods and associated functions

Defining enums, the Option type and pattern matching

Match expressions, destructuring and match guards

The trait system, generic bounds and standard traits

Result and Option types, unwrapping methods and the ? operator

How ? propagates errors and converts them with From

Raising panics, backtraces and panic hooks

Defining custom error types and implementing the Error trait

The module system, visibility, Cargo configuration and workspaces

Writing and running tests, coverage and mocking

Spawning threads, message passing and shared-state synchronisation

Asynchronous programming, futures, executors and select!