Rust Tutorial

These are the tutorial slides and exercises that were given at RustConf 2016. Before you finish, please let me know what you thought at this Google form -- your feedback helps me to improve the tutorials for others. Thanks. --nmatsakis

FYI: Ignore the links to http://rust-tutorials.com/exercises that are found in the slides; that content may get out of sync.

Beginner tutorial: Ownership and Borrowing

Slides available for download here.

• Hello World:
  • Time: 3 minutes
• Ownership:
  • Extra credit: Can you do it without copying any data?
  • Time: 10 minutes
• Shared borrows:
  • Time: 10 minutes
• 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
  • Hint: Here is an outline of what the function should do, if you get stuck.
  • Time: 10 minutes

Intermediate tutorial: Traits and Threads

Slides available for download: Traits and Threads.

• Traits
• Defaults
• Layering
• 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 tutorial: More lifetimes

Slides available here. 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