Why Rust?

Goals and Strategy

Choosing Rust

Install and Get Started

Getting to Hello World

Using Cargo

JavaScript to Rust Cheatsheet

Up and Running with Rust

Getting arguments from the command line

Reading from files and counting words

Using struct to structure data

Implementing methods and using Vectors

Using traits

A Tour of Rust: Building Command Line Utilities

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In this course, you'll learn **practical, project-based programming with Rust**, specifically tailored for someone who understands JavaScripts. 

Learning Rust can be daunting for a JavaScript developer because of differences like manual memory management, the compilation toolchain, the syntax, strong types and more.

While Rust has many great learn resources, like the staple _The Rust Programming Language_ book,  they often lacks specifics for developers coming from interpreted languages like JavaScript.

In _Rust for JavaScript Developers_ you will learn: 

* the fundamentals of Rust
* practical Rust project knowledge and 
* what the analogues are coming from JavaScript.

You'll get comfortable with developing in a new, challenging language and its environment. 

We'll use the Rust `std` library to make simple but non-trivial command line applications, and be empowered to read and understand the technical Rust documentation on your own. 

You'll understand the fundamentals of Rust syntax and tools like `Iterators`, pattern matching, `struct`s, `impl`s, and return types, and be able to use those in your programs. 

You will also be able to draw on your understanding of JavaScript to augment and better grok these new Rust concepts and ease Rust's notorious learning curve.

In this course, you'll be learning the fundamentals of practical Rust, from the perspective of a JavaScript developer.

Rust For JavaScript Developers

How to build command line utilities in Rust

Value of a modern, compiled, statically typed language

Differences between JavaScript and Rust idioms

What problems Rust is particularly good for

The aim of this course is to take the intermediate JavaScript developer and draw upon their JavaScript knowledge to make them productive with Rust faster than they'd be able to with more general resources. To do this we'll go through a series of practical Rust projects, dealing with a wide breadth of Rust concepts but focusing on pragmatic knowledge over encyclopedic. By the end of module 2 of this course, the student will be comfortable enough to implement simple but useful Rust programs and be equipped to ask the right questions and go to the right resources for learning more.

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# Goals and Strategy

The aim of this course is to take the intermediate JavaScript developer and draw upon their JavaScript knowledge to make them productive with Rust faster than they'd be able to with more general resources. To do this we'll go through a series of practical Rust projects, dealing with a wide breadth of Rust concepts but focusing on pragmatic knowledge over encyclopedic. By the end of module 2 of this course, the student will be comfortable enough to implement simple but useful Rust programs and be equipped to ask the right questions and go to the right resources for learning more.