How To Learn Rust

5/19/2016

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 Today’s Audience

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 Your Next Language

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 Curiosity

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 Features

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 Work

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 Why?

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 Pattern Recognition

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 Your Next Language

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 Learning Styles

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 Tasks You Enjoy
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Tasks You Despise

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 Successful Projects
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Unsuccessful Projects

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 What will you achieve?
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When?

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 Which Language?

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 Popularity

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 Community

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 Resources

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 Features

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 Old & New Concepts

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 “My next language _____”

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It’s worth taking time from...

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 Family? Hobbies? Sleep?

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 Capture Your Motivation

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 12 Study Techniques

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 1) Language Docs

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 2) Similar Languages

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 3) Community Support

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 4) Write Real Code

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 5) Read The Books

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 6) Examine Examples

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 7) Find Good Tools

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 8) Read Real Code

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 9) Write Toy Programs

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 10) Google & Stackoverflow

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11) Watch Lectures & Courses

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 12) Maintain Enthusiasm

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 Troubleshooting

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 Community Interaction

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 Time

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 Language features

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 Advice

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 Learn by Doing

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 Practice Consistently

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 Start with the Basics

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 Build Something You Love

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Respect Languages’ Differences

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 It Gets Better

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 Learning Rust!

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 Are You Ready?

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 www.rust-lang.org
1.0 on May 15, 2015

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 Systems Programming.
Safe, Concurrent, Fast.

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 Memory Safety, no GC.
Ownership + Lifetimes.
Types & Traits.

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 “I am learning @rustlang to ___”

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 1) Language Docs

doc.rust-lang.org

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 2) Similar Languages

github.com/ctjhoa/rust-learning/

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 3) Community Support

www.rust-lang.org/community.html
users.rust-lang.org
#rust-beginners on irc.mozilla.org

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 4) Write Real Code

GitHub search “is:open is:issue language:rust”

starters.servo.org

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 5) Read The Books

doc.rust-lang.org/book
O’Reilly, Programming Rust
Packt Publishing, Rust Essentials

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 6) Examine Examples

rustbyexample.com
Carol’s rustlings
Rosetta Code

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 7) Find Good Tools

play.rust-lang.org
Clippy and Rustfmt
IDE support

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 8) Read Real Code

crates.io popular libraries

The Rust Compiler
Rust in Production

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 9) Write Toy Programs

Rust by Example
exercism.io
Project Euler
Hackerrank

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 10) Google & Stackoverflow

Stackoverflow Rust tag

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11) Watch Lectures & Courses

rust-learning list

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 12) Maintain Enthusiasm

Rust subreddit
This Week In Rust

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 Errors are here to help

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 Basic Syntax

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 Scope Errors!

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 Punctuation Errors

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 Unused Variables

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 Hey, Pythonistas!

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 Hey, Pythonistas!

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 Primitive types (built-in)
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bool ●
f32, f64
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char ●
isize, usize
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i8, i16, i32, ●
str
i64 ●
tuple
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u8, u16, u32,
u64

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 Function Type Signatures

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Function with a type signature

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 Synonymous return

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 Type Errors

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 Anything you can add...
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Add.html

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 Traits

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 Additional Resources
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https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/traits.html
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http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/11/traits.html
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http://rustbyexample.com/trait.html
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http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2012/08/08/a-gentle-i
ntroduction-to-traits-in-rust/

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 Ownership Rules

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No borrow may outlive value's owner

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Exactly 1 mutable reference (&mut T)
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OR
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As many read-only references (&T) as you
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 Giving Away a Value

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 Given away means gone

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 Borrow the value

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 Make a mutable copy

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 Review
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Only owner can access value
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1 mutable reference or unlimited read-only
references to each value
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Borrow may not outlive owner

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 Additional Resources
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http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ownership.html
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http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/references-and-borrowing.ht
ml
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Why the to_string()?
http://hermanradtke.com/2015/05/03/string-vs-str-in-rust-function
s.html
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http://rustbyexample.com/trait/clone.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2xxjda/when_should_m
y_type_be_copy/

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 It Gets Better

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