Welcome to Comprehensive Rust 🦀 Two-Day

This is a fork of the free Rust course developed by the Android team at Google. The course covers the full spectrum of Rust, from basic syntax to advanced topics like generics and error handling. This experimental fork is intended to be taught in just two days. As such, it omits some material and zooms over other.

The latest version of the course can be found at https://rust-edu.github.io/comprehensive-rust-2day/. If you are reading somewhere else, please check there for updates.

The goal of the course is to teach you Rust. We assume you don’t know anything about Rust and hope to:

• Give you a comprehensive understanding of the Rust syntax and language.
• Enable you to modify existing programs and write new programs in Rust.
• Show you common Rust idioms.

Non-Goals

Rust is a large language and we won’t be able to cover all of it in a few days. Some non-goals of this course are:

• Learning how to develop macros: please see Chapter 19.5 in the Rust Book and Rust by Example instead.

• Covering specialized topics: the full version of Comprehensive Rust includes “deep dives” on several topics.

Assumptions

The course assumes that you already know how to program. Rust is a statically-typed language and we will sometimes make comparisons with C and C++ to better explain or contrast the Rust approach.

If you know how to program in a dynamically-typed language such as Python or JavaScript, then you will be able to follow along just fine too.

This two-day version also assumes that you have set up a working Rust development environment and familiarized yourself with the basics of Rust before starting. This includes reviewing the first few chapters of The Rust Programming Language in advance. We will review this material, but rather quickly.