Course: PSU CS 410P/510 Rust Programming (Spring 2021) | psu-cs

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General

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- 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
Starting Rust
Project setup and tools

Hello World: binary and library

Rust control flow basics

Rust datatype basics

Read: chs 1-3
Rust Magic
Ownership

"Mutability"

Borrowing and mutable borrowing

Automatic memory management

Lifetimes

Read: chs 4-5
Software Engineering
Survey of control flow

Function calls

Error handling

Cargo

Crates

Modules

Decorations

Tests

Rustdoc

Read: chs 6-8
Structs and Enums
Structs

Enums

impl

Lifetimes

Read: chs 9-10
- Structs Page
- Enums Page
Traits and Generics
Traits and Generics

Using traits

Traits, operators and overloading

Utility traits

Read: chs 11-13
Closures and Iterators
Functions, closures and environments

Using closures

Iterators

Closure and iterator operations

Read: chs 14-15
- Closures Page
- Iterators Page
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
Parallel Programming
Fork-Join parallelism

Channels

Shared mutable state

Async runtimes

Async/await

Read: chs 19, 20
- Parallel Programming Page
- Async/Await Page
Macros
Writing macros

Macro matching syntax

Crates and macros

Read: ch 21
- Macros Page
- Proc Macros Page
Unsafe and FFI
Undefined behavior vs unsafe

Raw pointers

Foreign functions

Read: chs 22-23
- Unsafe Page
- Course Project Assignment