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Move hello world example to second section (#1838)

The current location for the hello world example is awkward since the
two surrounding pages are both talking about Rust from a high level
without talking about syntax at all. I think starting the second section
(types and values) with the hello world example would help the first
section flow more smoothly.
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# Hello, World
Let us jump into the simplest possible Rust program, a classic Hello World
program:
```rust,editable
fn main() {
println!("Hello 🌍!");
}
```
What you see:
- Functions are introduced with `fn`.
- Blocks are delimited by curly braces like in C and C++.
- The `main` function is the entry point of the program.
- Rust has hygienic macros, `println!` is an example of this.
- Rust strings are UTF-8 encoded and can contain any Unicode character.
<details>
This slide tries to make the students comfortable with Rust code. They will see
a ton of it over the next four days so we start small with something familiar.
Key points:
- Rust is very much like other languages in the C/C++/Java tradition. It is
imperative and it doesn't try to reinvent things unless absolutely necessary.
- Rust is modern with full support for things like Unicode.
- Rust uses macros for situations where you want to have a variable number of
arguments (no function [overloading](../control-flow-basics/functions.md)).
- Macros being 'hygienic' means they don't accidentally capture identifiers from
the scope they are used in. Rust macros are actually only
[partially hygienic](https://veykril.github.io/tlborm/decl-macros/minutiae/hygiene.html).
- Rust is multi-paradigm. For example, it has powerful
[object-oriented programming features](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch17-00-oop.html),
and, while it is not a functional language, it includes a range of
[functional concepts](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch13-00-functional-features.html).
</details>