Rust Developer Foundation

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• This is a list of summarized notes from reading The Book
• Additional helpful videos at The Rust Lang Book Video Series

Contents

1. Introduction
   • Installation
   • rustup commands
   • Hello World
   • Cargo
2. Project - Guessing Game
   • Practical project intro to programming in Rust
   • High-level concepts introductions: I/O, Variables, Random Number, Crates, Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, Loop, Error Handling
3. Common Programming Concepts
   • Variables and Mutability
   • Constants
   • Shadowing
   • Data Types: Scalar and Compound
   • Functions
   • Comments
   • Control Flow: if-else if-else
   • Loops: loop, while, for
4. Ownership, Borrowing, and Slices
   • Stack vs Heap
   • Ownership Rules
   • Variable Scope
   • String Type
   • Memory and Allocation: Move, Clone, Copy
   • Ownership and Functions
   • Return Values and Scope
   • References and Borrowing
   • Immutable Reference and Mutable Reference
   • Dangling Reference
   • Rules of References
   • Slice Type
   • Range Syntax
   • String Slices
   • Slice Similarities In Other Languages
5. Structs and Methods
   • Custom types
6. Enums, Pattern Matching, and Control Flow
   • match expression
   • if let control flow expression
7. Packages, Crates, and Modules
   • Module system
   • Privacy rules for organizing codes and APIs
8. Common Collections Data Structures
   • Standard Library
   • Vectors
   • Strings
   • Hashmaps
9. Error Handling
   • Error handling philosophy
   • Error handling techniques
10. Generic, Traits, Lifetimes
    • Code for multiple types
11. Automated Tests
    • Ensure program logic is correct
12. Project - Command-Line
    • Subset implementation of grep
    • Search texts within files
13. Iterators and Closures
    • Features from functional programming
14. Cargo and Crates.io
    • Module system in depth
    • Best practices for sharing libraries
15. Smart Pointers
    • Provided by standard library
    • Traits for their functionality
16. Concurrency and Threading
    • Different models of concurrent programming
    • Fearless threading in Rust
17. Object-Oriented Idioms
    • Idioms compared to OOP
18. Patterns and Pattern Matching
    • Reference for pattern matching
19. Advanced Topics
    • Unsafe Rust
    • Macros
    • Lifetimes
    • Traits
    • Types
    • Functions
    • Closures
20. Project - Low-Level Multithreaded Web Server
    • Apply it all

Appendix

• A. Keywords
• B. Operators and Symbols
• C. Derivable Traits
• D. Useful Development Tools
• E. Rust Editions
• F. Book Translations
• G. How Rust is Made + Nightly Rust