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Rust Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Rust Quick Start Guide The easiest way to learn Rust programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789616705
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Arbuckle Daniel Arbuckle
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Ready FREE CHAPTER 2. Basics of the Rust Language 3. The Big Ideas – Ownership and Borrowing 4. Making Decisions by Pattern Matching 5. One Data Type Representing Multiple Kinds of Data 6. Heap Memory and Smart Pointers 7. Generic Types 8. Important Standard Traits 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Ready, teaches how to install Rust and use the supporting tools cargo and rustup.

Chapter 2, Basics of the Rust Language, teaches the basic language syntax and fundamental semantic constructs.

Chapter 3, The Big Ideas – Ownership and Borrowing, discusses the things that set Rust apart from other programming languages.

Chapter 4, Making Decisions by Pattern Matching, explains how to use if let and match expressions.

Chapter 5, One Date Type Representing Multiple Kinds of Data, covers enumerations and trait objects.

Chapter 6, Heap Memory and Smart Pointers, explores the Box, Rc, RefCell, Arc, Mutex, and RwLock smart pointers.

Chapter 7, Generic Types, explains how to use generic type parameters with our data types.

Chapter 8, Important Standard Traits, covers traits that integrate with the language syntax and affect the behavior of the compiler.

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