Learn Rust, step by step 🦀

Meet Ferris and write your very first program.

• ○ 🦀 What is Rust?
• ○ 🛠️ Setting Up Your Workshop
• ○ 👋 Your First Program
• ○ 🤖 Cargo, Your Robot Helper

Build a real game where the computer picks a secret number.

• ○ 🎲 Build a Guessing Game

Variables, types, functions, and choices — the bricks of every program.

• ○ 📦 Variables: Labeled Boxes
• ○ 🔒 Locked & Unlocked Boxes
• ○ 🔢 Kinds of Data (Types)
• ○ ⚙️ Functions: Little Machines
• ○ 📝 Notes to Yourself
• ○ 🔀 Making Choices (if/else)
• ○ 🔁 Doing It Again (Loops)

Rust's most famous idea — who owns each piece of memory.

• ○ 📱 One Owner at a Time
• ○ 🤝 Borrowing: Lending Values
• ○ 🍕 A Slice of the Pie

Make your own custom data with structs and teach them tricks.

• ○ 🧩 Structs: Your Own LEGO Kits
• ○ 📐 Example: A Rectangle
• ○ 🎓 Teaching Structs Tricks

Enums and match — pick one option and handle every case.

• ○ 🚦 Enums: One of a Few
• ○ 🎩 match: The Sorting Hat
• ○ 👀 A Quick Peek (if let)

Organize big projects into packages, crates, and modules.

• ○ 📦 Packages & Crates
• ○ 🚪 Modules: Rooms in a House
• ○ 🗺️ Finding Your Way (use)

Hold many things at once with vectors, strings, and hash maps.

• ○ 📋 Vectors: A Growing List
• ○ 🔤 Strings: Words & Sentences
• ○ 🔑 Hash Maps: Matching Pairs

What to do when something goes wrong, the Rust way.

• ○ 💥 When Things Break (panic!)
• ○ ✅ Success or Oops (Result)
• ○ 🤔 Should I Panic?

Write code once that works with many types: generics, traits, lifetimes.

• ○ 🧰 Generics: Works With Anything
• ○ ⭐ Traits: Shared Superpowers
• ○ ⏳ Lifetimes: How Long Things Live

Write tests so your programs stay correct.

• ○ 🧪 Writing Tests
• ○ ▶️ Running Tests
• ○ 🗃️ Organizing Tests

Build a real command-line search tool from scratch.

• ○ 🔎 Build a Search Tool

Closures and iterators — powerful, elegant ways to work with data.

• ○ 🪄 Closures: Pocket Functions
• ○ 🔄 Iterators: Going Through Stuff

Cargo superpowers and publishing your code to the world.

• ○ 🌍 Cargo Tricks & Crates.io

Special boxes that do extra clever things with memory.

• ○ 📦 Box: A Pointer to the Heap
• ○ 👥 Rc: Sharing Ownership
• ○ 🔧 RefCell: Bending Rules Safely

Threads and safe sharing — Rust calls this fearless concurrency.

• ○ 🧵 Threads
• ○ 📨 Sending Notes (Channels)
• ○ 🔐 Sharing Safely (Mutex)

Do other work while you wait, instead of standing still.

• ○ ⏰ Async & Await

Many shapes, one box — trait objects and OOP ideas in Rust.

• ○ 🎭 Many Shapes, One Box

The full power of pattern matching, used all over Rust.

• ○ 🧩 Patterns & Matching

Peek behind the curtain, then build a real web server!

• ○ ⚡ Advanced Magic (unsafe)
• ○ 🌐 The Big Build: A Web Server