Course: Rust Programming — Spring 2019

Weekly outline

General

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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
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
Control Flow; 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
Traits and Generics
Traits and Generics

Using traits

Traits, operators and overloading

Utility traits

Read: chs 11-13
- Traits and Generics Page
- Fancy Traits Page
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
- Collections Page
- Strings and I/O Page
Parallel Programming
Fork-Join parallelism

Channels

Shared mutable state

Read: ch 19
- Parallel Programming Page
Macros; Unsafe Code
Writing macros

Macro matching syntax

Crates and macros

Undefined behavior vs unsafe

Raw pointers

Foreign functions

Read: chs 20-21
Review and Discussion
- MS (CS 510) whitepaper Assignment
- Course Project Assignment