Rust 101 - 2: Language basics

An introduction to the Rust language basics.

Series: Language basics, More syntax, Traits and generics, Building applications, Concurrency and parallelism, Trait objects, Async, Unsafe, FFI

This section (Language basics): 1: Intro, 2: Language basics, 3: Memory and ownership, 4: Exercises A1

• What Rust is and why you might want to learn it
• Examining a simple program
• Learning about the types of variable you can have (numbers, strings, tuples, arrays)
• Introducing control flow with if, for, while and loop
• Talking about functions and expressions
• Preparing ourselves for the next video, which is about memory management

If you'd like to learn more about Unicode and character sets, try my video Interesting Characters where I share how surprisingly interesting this whole area is.

Links:

• Florian Gilcher on "Why Learn Rust?"
• Slides: Rust 101 - 2: Language basics slides
• Exercises: artificialworlds.net/presentations/rust-101/exercises/A1-language-basics/mod.html

The course materials for this series are developed by tweede golf. You can find more information at github.com/tweedegolf/101-rs and you can sponsor the work at github.com/sponsors/tweedegolf. They are released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license.

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