Learning Rust and Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago

Rust for Lemmings Reading Club Week 1 [Project]

Learning Rust and Lemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago

Hi All! Welcome to the Reading Club for Rust’s “The Book” (“The Rust Programming Language”). This is week 1 (the beginning!!).

Have a shot at going through “the reading” and post any thoughts, confusions or insights here

“The Reading”

Finish up to Chapter 2: “Programming a Guessing Game”
The Book: https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/title-page.html (the special Brown University version with quizzes etc)

The Twitch Stream

@[email protected] ran a twitch stream on these chapters which is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou2c5J6FmsM
You might prefer watching and listening to that rather than reading the book.
Be sure to catch future streams (will/should be weekly: https://www.twitch.tv/deerfromsmoke)

What’s Next Week?

Chapters 3 and 4
Start thinking about challenges or puzzles to try as we go in order to get some applied practice!
- EG, Advent of Code
- Maybe some basic/toy web apps such as a “todo”

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5 months ago

Seems I gotta dig into the borrow checker before thinking too much about this!

It’s covered in detail in chapter 4.

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