Rust Programming Course
A thorough Rust course from first principles to production-ready applications — covering ownership, the borrow checker, traits, generics, async/concurrent programming with Tokio, and building real-world tools with Axum and Ratatui.
Rust offers memory safety without a garbage collector, fearless concurrency, and best-in-class performance. This course guides participants through Rust's unique ownership model, the type system, and advanced features — all reinforced through practical exercises including implementing a web server with Axum, a terminal UI with Ratatui, and a parallel computation using OS threads and Tokio.
Who is this training for?
Software developers with experience in at least one other programming language who want to learn Rust for systems programming, high-performance backend services, CLI tools, or WebAssembly targets.
Agenda
Development Environment
- Installing Rust via rustup
- rustc, Cargo, Clippy, rustdoc
- IDE integration
Getting Started
- Creating a first project with Cargo
- Variables and mutability
- Data types
- Ownership, references, and the borrow checker
- Strings and string slices
- Functions and closures
- Control flow
- Enums and pattern matching
- Structs
- Option and Result types
Advanced Problems
- Vectors and collections
- Methods and associated functions
- Modules and visibility
- Traits and generics
- Unit tests and integration tests
Iterators
- Iterator trait and adapters
- Lazy evaluation
Lifetimes
- Lifetime annotations
- Lifetime elision rules
Async Rust
- OS threads and shared state
- The Tokio async runtime
- Async/await syntax
- Concurrent task management
Building Applications
- Web development with Axum
- Terminal UIs with Ratatui
- Cross-platform hex viewer
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