CS 410P/510 Rust Programming — Winter 2020

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• General

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    Syllabus Page
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    Course Code Github URL
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    A Gentle Introduction To Rust URL
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    Exercism URL
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    Rust Book URL
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    Rust By Example URL
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    Rust Playground URL
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    Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists URL
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    Project Review Rubric Page
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    Book Examples: Iron-GCD, Mandelbrot Page

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

  • Rust datatype basics

  • Read: chs 1-3

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    Hello World Page
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    Datatypes, etc Page
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    HW 1: Writing Some Rust Assignment
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    Starting Rust URL
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    Live Programming: Writing a WAV file in Rust URL

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

  • Lifetimes

  • Read: chs 4-5

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    Intro to Structs and Enums Page
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    Aggregate Data Types Page
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    Intro to Iterators and Closures Page
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    Error Handling Page
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    Book Examples Page
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    HW2: RSA Assignment
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    Exploring Programming Rust Demos URL

• Software Engineering
  • Survey of control flow
  • Function calls

  • Error handling

  • Cargo

  • Crates
  • Modules
  • Decorations
  • Tests

  • Rustdoc

  • Read: chs 6-8

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    Memory Management and Ownership Page
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    References and Lifetimes Page
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    Creating a Rust Library Crate URL

• Structs and Enums
  • Structs
  • Enums
  • impl

  • Lifetimes

  • Read: chs 9-10

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    Crates and Modules Page
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    Structs and Related Concepts Page
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    Enums Page
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    HW3: Keyword Index Assignment
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    HW 4: Course Project Proposal Assignment

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

  • Utility traits

  • Read: chs 11-13

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    Traits Page
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    Fancy Traits Page

• Closures and Iterators
  • Functions, closures and environments
  • Using closures
  • Iterators

  • Closure and iterator operations

  • Read: chs 14-15

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    Closures Page
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    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

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    Collections Page
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    Strings and I/O Page
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    Cells and Refcounts Page

• Parallel Programming
  • Fork-Join parallelism
  • Channels

  • Shared mutable state

  • Read: ch 19

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    Parallel Programming Page
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    unique crate docs File
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    HW 4: Unique Assignment

• Macros; Unsafe Code
  • Writing macros
  • Macro matching syntax

  • Crates and macros

  • Undefined behavior vs unsafe

  • Raw pointers

  • Foreign functions

  • Read: chs 20-21

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    Macros Page
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    Unsafe Page

• Review and Discussion
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    Course Project (and Grad Paper) Assignment
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    Async/Await Page