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Rust Programming Basics

A rigorous, ground-up exploration of Rust Programming designed for serious engineers. This course strips away the abstraction to expose the raw internals, teaching you how these systems actually operate at scale. You will build a powerful mental model that bridges theoretical concepts with immediate, production-ready applications.

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6 weeks
Jul 23
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About this Course

Learn ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes before attempting kernel dev or FFI. This Aspiring Systems Engineers curriculum is designed to give you hands-on experience and deep conceptual understanding. Across 6 intensive modules, you'll tackle real-world challenges and build practical projects that reinforce your learning. By the end of this journey, you'll have the skills and proof of work to demonstrate your expertise.

What you'll learn

Master the underlying architecture and practical applications of Module 1: Introduction and Tooling.
Master the underlying architecture and practical applications of Module 2: Ownership and Borrowing.
Master the underlying architecture and practical applications of Module 3: Structs, Enums, and Pattern Matching.
Master the underlying architecture and practical applications of Module 4: Error Handling and Collections.

Prerequisites

beginner Level

Accessible to beginners with basic computer literacy.

  • Basic Rust syntax (ownership)
  • C/C++ memory concepts (pointers)

Ideal for

Aspiring Systems Engineers

Aspiring Systems Engineers Professionals
Tech Enthusiasts
W1

Module 1: Introduction and Tooling

Gain a deep understanding of Introduction and Tooling by comprehensively studying installing and configuring rust (rustup, cargo), rust syntax fundamentals: variables, mutability, and data types, and control flow: if, let, loops, and match.

3 videos•39m
3 topics
1 homework
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Topics

1.1
Installing and Configuring Rust (rustup, cargo)
Rust Tutorial #1 - Introduction To Rust Programming
15 minutes
1.2
Rust Syntax Fundamentals: Variables, Mutability, and Data Types
Rust Programming #2: Variables, Mutability & Data Types Explained | From Scratch
16 minutes
1.3
Control Flow: if, let, loops, and match
Complete Rust Series: #10 Control Flow Part -1 - If/else and match
8 minutes
W2

Module 2: Ownership and Borrowing

Gain a deep understanding of Ownership and Borrowing by comprehensively studying the ownership rules and memory safety, references, borrowing, and slice types, and introduction to lifetimes.

3 videos•76m
3 topics
1 homework
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W3

Module 3: Structs, Enums, and Pattern Matching

Master the practical implementation of Structs, Enums, and Pattern Matching by comprehensively studying defining and instantiating structs, enums and the option/result types, and advanced pattern matching with match and if let.

3 videos•102m
3 topics
1 homework
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W4

Module 4: Error Handling and Collections

Construct reliable, production-ready workflows for Error Handling and Collections by comprehensively studying unrecoverable errors with panic!, recoverable errors with result and the ? operator, and common collections: vectors, strings, and hash maps.

3 videos•92m
3 topics
1 homework
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W5

Module 5: Generics, Traits, and Lifetimes

Develop an intuitive mental model for Generics, Traits, and Lifetimes by comprehensively studying generic data types and functions, traits: defining shared behavior, and validating references with lifetimes.

3 videos•80m
3 topics
1 homework
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W6

Module 6: Advanced Topics and Concurrency

Explore the mechanics of Module 6: Advanced Topics and Concurrency by comprehensively studying smart pointers (box, rc, refcell), fearless concurrency: threads and message passing, and shared-state concurrency (mutex, arc).

3 videos•65m
3 topics
1 homework
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