An introduction to the Rust language basics.

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?”: https://youtu.be/l8Qk5Nh6qsg
Slides: http://artificialworlds.net/presentations/rust-101/A1-intro-to-rust
Exercises: https://101-rs.tweede.golf/A1-language-basics/mod.html

Rust 101 is a series of videos explaining how to write programs in Rust. The course materials for this series are developed by tweede golf. You can find more information at https://github.com/tweedegolf/101-rs and you can sponsor the work at https://github.com/sponsors/tweedegolf . They are released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license.

This series of videos is copyright 2023 Andy Balaam and the tweede golf contributors and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license.

This project is on-going, is hosted on PeerTube, and we aren’t too far behind, so I thought it might be of interest.
Playlist so far: https://diode.zone/w/p/xesbWmNanEHNBfJCZFQRUm