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Welcome to Comprehensive Rust 🦀
This is a three day Rust course developed by the Android team. The course covers the full spectrum of Rust, from basic syntax to advanced topics like generics and error handling. It also includes Android-specific content on the last day.
The goal of the course is to teach you Rust. We assume you don't know anything about Rust and hope to:
- Give you a comprehensive understanding of the Rust syntax and language.
- Enable you to modify existing programs and write new programs in Rust.
- Show you common Rust idioms.
The first three days show you the fundamentals of Rust. Following this, you're invited to dive into one or more specialized topics:
- Android: a half-day course on using Rust for Android platform development (AOSP). This includes interoperability with C, C++, and Java.
- Bare-metal: a whole-day class on using Rust for bare-metal (embedded) development. Both microcontrollers and application processors are covered.
- Concurrency: a whole-day class on concurrency in Rust. We cover both classical concurrency (preemptively scheduling using threads and mutexes) and async/await concurrency (cooperative multitasking using futures).
Non-Goals
Rust is a large language and we won't be able to cover all of it in a few days. Some non-goals of this course are:
- Learning how to develop macros: please see Chapter 19.5 in the Rust Book and Rust by Example instead.
Assumptions
The course assumes that you already know how to program. Rust is a statically- typed language and we will sometimes make comparisons with C and C++ to better explain or contrast the Rust approach.
If you know how to program in a dynamically-typed language such as Python or JavaScript, then you will be able to follow along just fine too.
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