Rust Programming

Target Audience

• This is a beginner course suitable for anyone wanting to use Rust for developing libraries or applications.

Prerequisites

• Basic programming background in either a high-level language such as C, Java or a scripting language such as Shell, VBSscript, Javascript, Perl, PHP or Ruby

Objectives

• To be able to write programs in Rust.
• To master the rich set of Rust libraries (crates).

Course Format

• Duration of the course is 24 academic hours. (3 full days).
• The course includes approximately 40% hands on lab work.

Syllabus

1. Rust
   • Installing Rust
   • Why use Rust?
   • Cargo - the package and dependency manager of Rust
   • Hello World
   • Primitives - basic types in Rust
   • Variables, mutability
   • Control flow
   • Understanding memory safety, ownership and borrowing
   • They type system of Rust
   • Error handling
   • Special types: Option, Result
   • Vectors
   • Structs
   • Enums
   • Threading
   • Creating libraries in Rust
   • Generics and Traits
   • Variable lifetime
   • Smart pointers
   • Dependency management
   • Backword compability
   • Testing your code
   • Distributing executables for multiple platforms (CI/CD, cross compilation)
2. Relevant Computer Science topics
   • Data embedded in the source code
   • What is the Stack, Heap
   • Pointers
   • Memory management
   • Manual memory managemen with allocation and freeing
   • Refernce counting
   • Garbage collection
   • Compiled vs. Interpreted languages
   • Statically type vs. dynamically typed languages
   • Loosly typed vs strongly typed
3. Functiona programmin in Rust
   • Iterators
   • Closures
   • Function pointers
4. Concurrency with async programming
5. The liquid Templating system
6. CLI - Command line applications in Rust
7. Building API in Rust
8. Handling well-knonw file formats
   • JSON
   • YAML
   • CSV
9. Macros
10. Unsafe Rust and FFI - Foreign Function Interface

Contact

Contact: Gabor Szabo gabor@hostlocal.com
Phone: +972-54-4624648