RustConf 2017 Tutorial Exercises

FYI: This page is at http://rust-tutorials.com/RustConf17/.

Beginner Tutorial

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

Intermediate Tutorial

Traits

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 tutorial