[Rust] Beginner Friendly Learning Resources

Books

• Getting Started
  • The Rust Programming Language: everything you need to get started with Rust
  • The Rust Reference: the primary reference for the Rust programming
    language
  • Rust By Example: a collection of runnable examples that
    illustrate various Rust concepts and standard libraries
• Intermediate
  • Rust for Rustaceans: for
    developers who’ve mastered the basics, this book is the next step on your way to professional-level programming in
    Rust
  • The Cargo Book: Rust package manager
  • Asynchronous Programming in Rust: a
    comprehensive, up-to-date guide to using Rust’s async language features and libraries
  • Rust API Guidelines: a set of recommendations on how to design and
    present APIs for the Rust programming language
  • The Rust Performance Book: techniques that can improve
    the performance—speed and memory usage—of Rust programs
• Dark Magic
  • The Rustonomicon: all the awful details that you need to
    understand when writing Unsafe Rust programs

Cheatsheets

• cheats.rs/

Videos

• Considering Rust: the pros & cons of Rust and
  how it compares with other languages
• Rust at speed: a real world usage example of
  Rust
• Crust of Rust: where Jon Gjengset explains
  one core Rust concept at a time
  • and more good stuff on
    his YouTube channel

Posts

• A THREAD ABOUT LEARNING THE RUST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
  on Twitter by Andrea Pessino
• Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it’s also the most exciting thing in software development in a long time
  by Paul Dix
• Rust Tips and Tricks by Jon Gjengset

Hands-On

• Complete all three projects in “The Rust Programming Language” book
• Exercism Rust Track: practice Rust by soling 100+ coding exercises
• Learn asynchronous programming and how to use Tokio by building a mini redis
• PNGme: An Intermediate Rust Project
• Talent Plan
  • TP 201: Practical Networked Applications in Rust:
    A series of projects that incrementally develop a single Rust project from the ground up into a high-performance,
    networked, parallel and asynchronous key/value store. Along the way various real-world Rust development subject
    matter are explored and discussed.
  • TP 202: Distributed Systems in Rust:
    Adapted from the MIT 6.824 distributed systems coursework, this course focuses on implementing important
    distributed algorithms, including the Raft consensus algorithm, and the Percolator distributed transaction
    protocol.

Libraries & Frameworks to Check Out

• Rocket: a web framework for Rust that makes it simple to write fast, secure web applications
  without sacrificing flexibility, usability, or type safety
• Tokio: an asynchronous runtime for the Rust programming language
• Serde: a framework for serializing and deserializing Rust data structures efficiently and
  generically
• clap: Command Line Argument Parser for Rust