Course Description

The Ultimate Rust Foundations class starts with an introduction to Rust, and why you benefit from using – both as a foundation, and within your existing ecosystem.

Course Outline

• Rust includes Cargo, a swiss-army knife tool that can:
• Using Rust without Cargo
• Rust’s Safety Guarantees
• “Hello World” application – the foundation of most languages.
• Arrays, vectors and slices.
• Strict types and strong typing.
• Serializing and De-Serializing data.
• Iterative Programming – using iterators to combine operations.
• Working with Strings
• Protection from data races
• Easy multi-threaded concurrency with Rayon
• Ultimate control with raw threads
• High-performance Input/Output with Asynchronous design and Tokio.
• Build a CPU bound program with Rayon, and use all of your CPU power.
• Manage raw-threads and shared data.
• Spin up a simple server in 10 minutes.
• The classic Object-Oriented Programming example of different objects printing different text – but with traits.
• Designing a simple generic function with ToString.
• Stacked traits – traits that depend upon one another, combined with generic programming.