PSU CS 410P/510 Rust Programming (Spring 2021)

Weekly outline

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  General

  • Syllabus Page
  • Zoom Lecture URL

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  • Pre-recorded Lectures (PSU Media Space) URL
  • Course Code Github URL
  • A Gentle Introduction To Rust URL
  • Exercism URL
  • "Official" Rust Book URL
  • Rust By Example URL
  • Rust Playground URL
  • Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists URL
  • Project Review Rubric Page
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  Starting Rust

  • Project setup and tools
  • Hello World: binary and library
  • Rust control flow basics

  • Rust datatype basics

  • Read: chs 1-3

  • Hello World Page
  • Datatypes, etc Page
  • Intro to Structs and Enums Page
  • Aggregate Data Types Page
  • Intro to Iterators and Closures Page
  • HW 1: Writing Some Rust Assignment
  • Starting Rust URL
  • Live Programming: Writing a WAV file in Rust URL
  • Book Examples: Iron-GCD, Mandelbrot Page
• This week
  

  Rust Magic

  • Ownership
  • "Mutability"
  • Borrowing and mutable borrowing
  • Automatic memory management

  • Lifetimes

  • Read: chs 4-5

  • Memory Management and Ownership Page
  • References and Lifetimes Page
  • Book Examples Page
  • HW2: RSA Assignment
  • Exploring Programming Rust Demos URL
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  Software Engineering

  • Survey of control flow
  • Function calls

  • Error handling

  • Cargo

  • Crates
  • Modules
  • Decorations
  • Tests

  • Rustdoc

  • Read: chs 6-8

  • Control Flow and Error Handling Page
  • Error Handling Page
  • Creating a Rust Library Crate URL
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  Structs and Enums

  • Structs
  • Enums
  • impl

  • Lifetimes

  • Read: chs 9-10

  • Crates and Modules Page
  • Structs and Related Concepts Page
  • Enums Page
  • HW 4: Course Project Proposal Assignment
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  Traits and Generics

  • Traits and Generics
  • Using traits
  • Traits, operators and overloading

  • Utility traits

  • Read: chs 11-13

  • Traits Page
  • Fancy Traits Page
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  Closures and Iterators

  • Functions, closures and environments
  • Using closures
  • Iterators

  • Closure and iterator operations

  • Read: chs 14-15

  • Closures Page
  • Iterators Page
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  Rust Collections; Strings, Text and IO

  • Vec
  • Hashing

  • Standard collection classes

  • String, str, char etc

  • Unicode and UTF-8
  • Working with strings

  • IO operations

  • Read: chs 16-18

  • Collections Page
  • Strings and I/O Page
  • Cells and Refcounts Page
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  Parallel Programming

  • Fork-Join parallelism
  • Channels

  • Shared mutable state

  • Read: ch 19

  • Parallel Programming Page
  • unique crate docs File
  • HW 4: Unique Assignment
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  Macros; Unsafe Code

  • Writing macros
  • Macro matching syntax

  • Crates and macros

  • Undefined behavior vs unsafe

  • Raw pointers

  • Foreign functions

  • Read: chs 21-23

  • Macros Page
  • Unsafe Page
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  Review and Discussion

  • Async/Await Page