Rust Training Overview
This Introduction to Rust training course teaches attendees the Rust programming fundamentals needed to design and implement their first Rust application. This class can be taught in English or French.
Location and Pricing
This course is taught as a private, live online class for teams of 3 or more. All our courses are hands-on, instructor-led, and tailored to fit your group’s goals and needs. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for online corporate training, please contact us.
In addition, we offer some courses as live, instructor-led online classes for individuals.
Objectives
- Think like a rustacean
- Write idiomatic Rust code
- Compile and test code
- Choose the appropriate data structure
- Use the documentation and most common libraries
- Understand Rust's strengths and weaknesses
- Design and implement their first application in Rust
Prerequisites
All attendees must have basic programming experience and knowledge of the Linux/Unix environment.
Outline
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Introduction
- How is Rust different?
- Execution time
- Error management
- Safety
- Multithreading
- Programming paradigms
Basics
- Primitive types
- Functions
- Variables and mutability
- Control flow
- Structured data types
- Enumerations (enum, match, Option)
Understanding Ownership and References
- Ownership
- References and Borrowing
- Slices
- Lifetime
- Types that contain references
Advanced Types
- Collections (String, Vec, HashMap)
- Iterators
- Error management (Result, propagation, panic)
- Closures
Generics
- Generic types
- Trait bounds
- Standard traits
Development Environment
- Installing and configuring Rust (rustup, system packages)
- Using the compiler and build system (rustc, cargo)
- The Cargo package manager (cargo and crates.io)
- Unit testing
- Documentation: rustdoc
- Environments and IDE
Multithreading
- Inter-thread communication
- Data sharing
- Trait Send and Sync
Advanced Rust
- Macros
- Using C/C++ code inside Rust
- Using Rust code inside C/C++
- Unsafe Rust
Standard Libraries and Ecosystem
- std::*
- Serializing using serde
- Non-blocking IO using tokio
- Querying databases
- Web server
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Rust training students receive comprehensive courseware.
Course materials © 2021 Cénotélie, France. All rights reserved.
Software Requirements
A complete, remote virtual environment is provided for training and is accessible via the Internet from any modern web browser.
