Rust Tutorial

The slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/nikomatsakis/rust-mozlando-tutorial. The original keynote file is also available.

This page is at http://smallcultfollowing.com/20151209.

• Hello World:
  • Goal: make it greet you by name
  • Time: 3 minutes
• Ownership:
  • Goal #1: Get code to compile
  • Goal #2: Convert so that it prints Removing vowels from "Firefox" yields "Frfx".
  • Extra credit: Can you do it without copying any data?
  • Time: 10 minutes
• Borrowing:
  • Goal: convert strcat function so that it uses borrowing, not ownership.
  • Question:
  • Time: 10 minutes
• Structs
  • Goal: implement total_price method
  • Time: 10 minutes
• Threads
  • Goal: join the threads and print out the store with the best price
  • 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

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