Rust Training Course

Who should attend

This course is aimed at developers who are looking to build robust, efficient applications using Rust.

Prerequisites

You should have some previous programming experience in another language such as Java, C++, JavaScript, C#.

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

We appreciate that you need flexibility to fit in with new working situations - whether you're an individual, part of a distributed team, or simply have projects and deadlines to meet. 

Our remote training can take place online in a virtual classroom, with content split into modules to accommodate your scheduling challenges and meet your learning goals. Get in touch today to find out how we can help design a cost-effective, flexible training solution.

As soon as it's safe, we'll return to also offering the on-site custom training courses and programmes upon which we've built our reputation.

Introduction to Rust

• Language fundamentals
  
• Obtaining Rust
• Setting up your development environment
  
• Useful Online Resources

Getting started with Rust

• Variables 
• Data Types
  
• Functions
• Comments
  
• Flow of Control 
• Expressions

Rust Ownership

• What is Ownership?
• Memory safety
• Stack & Heap
• Borrowing
• Slices

Structuring Data

• Structs
• Related Data
• Instantiating Structs
• Tuple Structs
• Ownership of Struct Data

Pattern Matching

• Enums
• Defining Types
• Expressions
  
• Match control flow operator

Keeping track of your project

• Packages
• Crates
• Modules
• Paths
• Controlling Scope and Privacy

Rust Collections

• Lists
• Values 
• Vectors
• Keys & Hash Maps

Error Handling

• Don't panic! (using the panic! macro)
• Backtracing
• Using the Result type

Generics

• Types
• Traits
• Lifetimes

Testing

• Writing tests
• Cargo test
• Unit tests

OO Programming

• Objects
• Encapsulation
• Inheritance
• Trait Objects
• Loops or Iterators?

Functional programming

• Iterators
• Closures
• Loops or Iterators?

Smart Pointers

• Using Box
• The Drop trait

Concurrency

• Threading
• Join Handles
• Message Passing
• Sync and Send