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Write Your First Program with the Rust Language

Instructor

Pascal Precht

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15 lessons
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Published 5 years ago
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Updated 4 years ago

Rust is a modern language that is close to the metal. It's got the performance of C, but with a more friendly syntax and community.

It's also memory safe, and ensures your applications are bug free by catching errors at compile time instead of runtime.

These features make Rust a great choice for developing code for embedded systems, web servers, and CLI apps. You can even compile Rust into WebAssembly in order to run it in-browser!

But as the saying goes, "before you learn to run, you must learn to walk".

In this course, you will write your first Rust application.

Starting from “Hello World” you’ll quickly move on to learning about Rust’s types, configuration files, and the cargo package manager along with classics like functions, loops, and handling user input.

More Rust-specific concepts like macros and pattern matching will also be introduced.

Check out these community notes for this course on Github.

Next Steps: Basic Types in Rust

Free Community Resource

A Community Resource means that it’s free to access for all. The instructor of this lesson requested it to be open to the public.

Listen to Pascal Precht tell you about this course:

What you'll learn:

  • Types
  • Functions & Loops
  • User Input
  • Package management with `cargo`
  • Pattern Matching
  • Error Handling

Learner Reviews

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    What did you like about this course?

    A simple, yet great introductory course with the minimal amount of fuzz for understanding concepts. Really loved it 🙌

    Andrés Osorio
    4 years ago
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    What did you like about this course?

    The most succinct introduction to a programming language I've ever seen. Bravo!

    Alex Pyzhianov
    4 years ago
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    What did you like about this course?

    Great introduction to the Rust language and I look forward to learning more about it. Bravo!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

    Conrad
    4 years ago
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    What would make this collection a 7 for you?

    A bit on data structures or OOP features.

    gnadenthal
    4 years ago
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    How will you use what you learned from this collection?

    Very nice intro. Though, expected to get some minimal working program by the end of the course. Hopefully this will be the next course on Rust by Pascal Precht! 😉👍

    Darius
    4 years ago
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    What did you like about this course?

    It was a good quick first look at Rust. Thanks for sharing.

    James
    5 years ago