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Introduction to Rust
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In this course, you'll learn Rust from the ground up, equipping you with the skills to build efficient and scalable Rust applications.
In this course, you'll learn Rust from the ground up, equipping you with the skills to build efficient and scalable Rust applications.
Advanced
2 weeks
Last Updated February 11, 2025
Prerequisites:
Advanced
2 weeks
Last Updated February 11, 2025
Skills you'll learn:
Prerequisites:
Course Lessons
Lesson 1
Rust Ownership, Borrowing, and Lifetimes
Master Rust's Ownership Model through understanding borrow checker, mutability, scopes, and lifetimes with supportive exercises and a quiz.
Lesson 2
Generics and Traits, Error Handling, and Control Flow, Enums, and Pattern Matching
Explore Rust's intermediate features: control flow, enums, pattern matching, generics, traits, and error handling. Engage with hands-on exercises and a comprehensive quiz.
Lesson 3
Documentation, Formatting, and Clippy, Testing, Examples, Benchmarks, and Debugging, and Cargo and Modules
Explore advanced Rust by mastering Cargo, modules, testing, and debugging. Enhance code readability with tools and test skills with exercises and a quiz.
Lesson 4
Macros & FFI
Explore advanced Rust techniques, focusing on declarative and procedural macros, C integration, and include exercises and quizzes for mastery.
Lesson 5
Concurrency
Explore advanced Rust with smart pointers, closures, multithreading, message passing, and asynchronous programming. Test skills with exercises and a comprehensive quiz.
Lesson 6 • Project
Building a Game Engine with Rust from the Ground Up
In this project, you'll apply your Rust skills to build a basic game engine from scratch.
Taught By The Best

Danilo Chiarlone
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Danilo (Dan) Chiarlone works at Microsoft, where he uses Rust to increase WebAssembly's security through hardware virtualization to enable the next wave of serverless and edge computing applications. Dan is also a passionate educator, offering free lessons on Rust and WebAssembly through his YouTube channel and delivering multiple presentations at events such as CloudNative Rejekts, WasmCon, and RustGlobal.
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About Introduction to Rust
Learn Rust from scratch and master efficient, scalable application development. This course covers Rust's Ownership Model, advanced features like smart pointers, multithreading, and asynchronous programming. Gain hands-on experience with quizzes and practical exercises to build your skills in Rust programming.