Schedule

Introduction

• Why Rust?
• Cargo basics
• Variables and mutability
• Data types
• Functions, statements, and expressions
• Control flow
• Course logistics

• Lecture 1 Video (by Connor)
• Rust Book Chapters 1-3
• `rustlings` exercises
• variables
• functions
• if
• primitive_types

• light (pdf)
• dark (pdf)

• handout
• writeup

Ownership (Part 1)

• Ownership
• Ownership Rules
• Motivation: Strings
• Data validity
• Move semantics, `Copy` and `Clone`
• Ownership with functions and return values
• References and Borrowing
• References vs Ownership
• Immutable and mutable references
• Dangling References and data races
• Slices
• `Vec` Sneak Peek

• Rust Book Chapter 4
• YouTube Version

• light (pdf)
• dark (pdf)

• handout
• writeup

Structs and Enums

• Ownership Review
• Structs
• Creating structs
• Update syntax
• Tuple structs
• Unit structs
• Lifetimes sneak peek
• `impl` Structs and Methods
• Automatic referencing and dereferencing
• `Self` vs `&self`
• Associated functions
• Enum basics
• Option Type
• Pattern Matching
• `match` control flow

• Rust Book Chapter 5
• Rust Book Chapter 6

• light (pdf)
• dark (pdf)

• handout
• writeup

Collections and Generics

• Details TBA

Error Handling and Traits

• Details TBA

Modules and Testing

• Details TBA

Closures and Iterators

• Details TBA

Ownership (Part 2)

• Details TBA

Lifetimes

• Details TBA

Smart Points and Trait Objects

• Details TBA

Unsafe

• Details TBA

Parallelism

• Details TBA

The Rust Ecosystem

• Details TBA

Concurrency

• Details TBA