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You're reading from Rust Essentials A quick guide to writing fast, safe, and concurrent systems and applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788390019

Length 264 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Rust

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Ivo Balbaert

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Starting with Rust FREE CHAPTER

2. Using Variables and Types

3. Using Functions and Control Structures

4. Structuring Data and Matching Patterns

5. Higher Order Functions and Error-Handling

6. Using Traits and OOP in Rust

7. Ensuring Memory Safety and Pointers

8. Organizing Code and Macros

9. Concurrency - Coding for Multicore Execution

10. Programming at the Boundaries

11. Exploring the Standard Library

12. The Ecosystem of Crates

Who this book is for

This book is directed at developers with some programming experience, either in C / C++, Java/C# or Python, Ruby, Dart or a similar language, having a basic knowledge of general programming concepts. It will get you up and running quickly, giving you all you need to start building your own Rust projects.

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Authors (1)

Ivo Balbaert

Ivo Balbaert is a lecturer in web programming and databases at CVO Antwerpen, a community college in Belgium. He received a PhD in applied physics from the University of Antwerp in 1986. He worked for 20 years in the software industry as a developer and consultant in several companies, and for 10 years as project manager at the University Hospital of Antwerp. From 2000 onwards, he switched to partly teaching and partly developing software (at KHM Mechelen, CVO Antwerpen). He also wrote an introductory book in Dutch about developing in Ruby and Rails, Programmeren met Ruby en Rails, published by Van Duuren Media. In 2012, he authored a book on the Go programming language, The Way to Go, published by iUniverse. He has written a number of introductory books for new programming languages, notably Dart, Julia, Rust, and Red, all published by Packt.

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