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This implements a translation pipeline using the industry-standard Gettext[1] system. I picked Gettext for the reasons described in [2] and [3]: * It’s widely used in open source software. This means that there are graphical editors which will help you in editing the `.po` files. An example is Poedit[4], which is available for all major platforms. There are also many online systems for doing translations. An example is Pontoon[5], which is used for the Rust website itself. We can consider setting up such an instance ourselves. * It is a light-weight yet structured format. This means that nothing changes with regards to how you update the original English text. We can still accept fixes and PRs like normal. The structure means that translators can see exactly which part of the course they need to update after a change. This is completely lost if you simply copy over the original text and translate it in-place in the Markdown files. The code here only adds support for translations. They are not yet tested, published or used for anything. Next steps will be: * Add support for switching languages via a bit of JavaScript on each page. * Update the speaker notes feature to support translations (right now “Speaker Notes” is hard-coded into the generated HTML). I think we should turn it into a mdbook preprocessor instead. * Add testing: We should test that the `.po` files are well-formed. We should also run `mdbook test` on each language since the translations can alter the embedded code. Fixes #115. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/index.html [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/pull/1864 [3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/5#issuecomment-1144887806 [4]: https://poedit.net/ [5]: https://pontoon.rust-lang.org/
Comprehensive Rust 🦀
This repository has the source code for Comprehensive Rust 🦀, a four day Rust course developed by the Android team. The course covers all aspects of Rust, from basic syntax to generics and error handling. It also includes Android-specific content on the last day.
Read the course at https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/.
Course Format and Target Audience
The course is used internally at Google when teaching Rust to experienced software engineers. They typically have a background in C++ or Java.
The course is taught in a classroom setting and we hope it will be useful for others who want to teach Rust to their team. The course will be less useful for self-study since you miss out on the discussions happening in the classroom. You don't see the questions and answers and you don't see the compiler errors we trigger when going through the code samples. We hope to improve on this via speaker notes and by publishing videos.
Building
The course is built using mdBook and its Svgbob plugin. Install both tools with
$ cargo install mdbook
$ cargo install mdbook-svgbob
Then run
$ mdbook test
to test all included Rust snippets. Run
$ mdbook serve
to start a web server with the course. You'll find the content on
http://localhost:3000. You can use mdbook build to create a static version
of the course in the book/ directory.
Contact
For questions or comments, please contact Martin Geisler or start a discussion on GitHub. We would love to hear from you.