How to Learn Rust
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Introduction

Welcome!
Week 0: Motivations and Goals

Guide to week 0
Why are you learning Rust?
[TODO] Add time in your calendar for learning Rust
What barriers are you likely to face over the next 12 weeks?
Gaining a mental model of Rust
[TODO] Start your learning journal
Support the course
Week 1: Setting up your environment and the basics of the language

What to expect from week 1
Setting up your laptop to create the perfect learning environment
Interactive learning environments to try
Resources for learning the basics
Decoding the future of safe and efficient programming with Rust
[Essay] Getting your first Rust job
[Project] Extend a blogging framework
[Extension] Reading ideas
Week 1 wrap up
Week 2: Command-line utilities and cron jobs

Delayed 7 days

Welcome to week 2!
CLIs are an excellent way to start
Project ideas
Building a CLI in Rust
Simplify connecting to an API
Advice for generating output
Adding color to your text output
Week 3: Enums are Rust's special sauce

Delayed 14 days

[Essay] Addressing concerns about Rust's stability
[video] Introducing Rust's enum type
Rust's enums are more than numbers with names
[Project] Some micro projects for the week
Week 4: Ergonomic Errors

Delayed 21 days

[Podcast] Error handling with Jane Lusby, creator of the eyre crate
4 maturity levels of error handling in Rust
[video] Using the anyhow crate to improve your error messages
Week 5: Ownership, borrowing and lifetimes (explained in a way you'll actually understand)

Delayed 28 days

Gaining an intuition of ownership
[Project] Render the Julia set fractal
Developing a deeper understanding of ownership, borrowing and lifetimes
Week 6: Web APIs

Delayed 35 days

Advice for creating your first production web service with Rust
Artisanal, hand-crafted JSON
Guided tutorials for your first webapp with Axum

Week 0: Motivations and Goals

Your first job is actually for you to spend some time learning about you, rather than about Rust.

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