Rust Tutorial Exercises

From ECOOP 2017 Summer School.

FYI: This page is at http://rust-tutorials.com/ECOOP17SS/.

Ownership

• Hello World:
  • Time: 3 minutes
• Ownership:
  • Extra credit: Can you do it without copying any data?
  • Time: 10 minutes

Shared borrows

• Shared borrows:
  • Time: 10 minutes

Mutable borrows

• Mutable borrows:
  • Hint: Getting the syntax just right can be a bit tricky if you've never done any Rust before. If you need a hint, click here.
  • Time: 10 minutes

Structs and such

• Structs
  • Hint: Here is an outline of what the function should do, if you get stuck.
  • Time: 10 minutes

Traits

• Traits
• Defaults
• Layering

Intro to threading

• Threads
  • Extra credit #1: use channels instead
  • Extra credit #2: or, instead of channels, use a mutex to compute the best price in the parallel threads themselves
  • Time: 10 minutes

Advanced lifetimes

• Ensure you are using Nightly builds for the best error messages.

• Exercises are listed in the source code.

• Named lifetime parameters

• Lifetimes as part of the type
• Successful borrowing
• Lifetimes in structs