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You're reading from Creative Projects for Rust Programmers Build exciting projects on domains such as web apps, WebAssembly, games, and parsing

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789346220

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Tools

WebAssembly

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Carlo Milanesi

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Rust 2018: Productivity

2. Storing and Retrieving Data FREE CHAPTER

3. Creating a REST Web Service

4. Creating a Full Server-Side Web App

5. Creating a Client-Side WebAssembly App Using Yew

6. Creating a WebAssembly Game Using Quicksilver

7. Creating a Desktop Two-Dimensional Game Using ggez

8. Using a Parser Combinator for Interpreting and Compiling

9. Creating a Computer Emulator Using Nom

10. Creating a Linux Kernel Module

11. The Future of Rust

12. Assessments

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Questions

What is a Linux loadable kernel module?
What is the programming language expected to be used by the Linux kernel for its modules?
What is the kernel buffer and what is the first part of every line in it?
What is the purpose of the modinfo, lsmod, insmod, and rmmod Linux commands?
Why, by default, are the String, Vec, and Box data types not available to Rust code for building kernel modules?
What is the purpose of the #[no_mangle] Rust directive?
What is the purpose of the extern "C" Rust clause?
What is the purpose of the init_module and cleanup_module functions?
What is the purpose of the __register_chrdev and __unregister_chrdev functions?
Which function should be used to copy a sequence of bytes from kernel space memory to user-space memory?

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Authors (1)

Milanesi

Carlo Milanesi has a computer science degree from the State University of Milan, and lives in Bergamo, Italy. He is a software engineer with decades of experience in teaching and developing software for desktop and the web on Windows or Linux, using C, C++, Smalltalk, Delphi, Visual Basic, C#, Java, JavaScript, and Rust. He loves writing tests and documentation and has experience in the domains of banking, portfolio management, construction engineering, CAD systems for milling machines, human-machine interface systems for machine tools, and websites and web applications for enterprises and for public administration management. He has written a book on Rust entitled, Beginning Rust: From Novice to Professional.

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