Rust Crash Course for the Impatient

Learn all Rust fundamentals to build a nice to-do list app.

Ferris the Crab, the unofficial mascot for Rust

Here is what we will cover in this crash course:

1. Basics of Rust: Learn about variables, data types, and control flow structures.
2. Functions and Error Handling: Understand how to write functions and handle errors.
3. Ownership and Borrowing: grasp the fundamental concepts of Rust’s ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes.
4. Structs, Enums, and Collections: explore how to use structs, enums, and collections.
5. Building a Project: apply the knowledge to build a simple to-do list application.
6. Debugging and Testing: learn how to debug and write tests.

What is Rust?

Rust is a modern programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency. Rust is a systems programming language, but it’s also very versatile and can be used for web applications, game development, and other programming tasks.

Brief History and Purpose

Rust was first created by Graydon Hoare in 2006 and later sponsored by Mozilla. It emerged from the need to have a language that can provide memory safety (preventing common bugs like buffer overflows)…