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How To Learn Rust

The document discusses how to learn the Rust programming language. It recommends 12 study techniques including reading documentation, writing real code, examining examples, and maintaining enthusiasm by engaging with the Rust community. The document also provides examples for each technique, such as reading the Rust book, writing toy programs on exercism.io, and watching online lectures. It emphasizes learning by doing, practicing consistently, and starting with the basics of Rust syntax and types.

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How To Learn Rust

The document discusses how to learn the Rust programming language. It recommends 12 study techniques including reading documentation, writing real code, examining examples, and maintaining enthusiasm by engaging with the Rust community. The document also provides examples for each technique, such as reading the Rust book, writing toy programs on exercism.io, and watching online lectures. It emphasizes learning by doing, practicing consistently, and starting with the basics of Rust syntax and types.

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How To Learn Rust

5/19/2016

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Pattern Recognition

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Your Next Language

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Learning Styles

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Tasks You Enjoy
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Successful Projects
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When?

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Popularity

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Resources

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Features

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Old & New Concepts

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Family? Hobbies? Sleep?

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Capture Your Motivation

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12 Study Techniques

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1) Language Docs

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2) Similar Languages

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3) Community Support

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4) Write Real Code

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5) Read The Books

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6) Examine Examples

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7) Find Good Tools

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8) Read Real Code

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9) Write Toy Programs

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10) Google & Stackoverflow

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Troubleshooting

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Community Interaction

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Time

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Language features

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Advice

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Learn by Doing

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Practice Consistently

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Start with the Basics

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Build Something You Love

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Respect Languages’ Differences

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It Gets Better

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Learning Rust!

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Are You Ready?

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www.rust-lang.org
1.0 on May 15, 2015

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Systems Programming.
Safe, Concurrent, Fast.

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Memory Safety, no GC.
Ownership + Lifetimes.
Types & Traits.

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“I am learning @rustlang to ___”

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1) Language Docs

doc.rust-lang.org

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2) Similar Languages

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4) Write Real Code

GitHub search “is:open is:issue language:rust”


starters.servo.org

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5) Read The Books

doc.rust-lang.org/book
O’Reilly, Programming Rust
Packt Publishing, Rust Essentials

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6) Examine Examples

rustbyexample.com
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Rosetta Code

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7) Find Good Tools

play.rust-lang.org
Clippy and Rustfmt
IDE support

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8) Read Real Code

crates.io popular libraries


The Rust Compiler
Rust in Production

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9) Write Toy Programs

Rust by Example
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Project Euler
Hackerrank

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10) Google & Stackoverflow

Stackoverflow Rust tag

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11) Watch Lectures & Courses

rust-learning list

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12) Maintain Enthusiasm

Rust subreddit
This Week In Rust

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Errors are here to help

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Basic Syntax

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Scope Errors!

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Unused Variables

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Hey, Pythonistas!

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Hey, Pythonistas!

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Primitive types (built-in)
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bool ●
f32, f64
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char ●
isize, usize
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i8, i16, i32, ●
str
i64 ●
tuple
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u8, u16, u32,
u64

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Function Type Signatures

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Function with a type signature

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Synonymous return

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Type Errors

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Anything you can add...
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Traits

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http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/11/traits.html
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Ownership Rules

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No borrow may outlive value's owner

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Exactly 1 mutable reference (&mut T)
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OR
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As many read-only references (&T) as you
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Giving Away a Value

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Given away means gone

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Borrow the value

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Make a mutable copy

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Review
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Only owner can access value
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1 mutable reference or unlimited read-only
references to each value
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Borrow may not outlive owner

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http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/references-and-borrowing.ht
ml
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Why the to_string()?
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s.html
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http://rustbyexample.com/trait/clone.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2xxjda/when_should_m
y_type_be_copy/

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It Gets Better

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Thank You
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