Rust Language

# Day 1

- Introduction

- Installation

- rustup

- cargo, rustc

- crates.io

- create a first project

- creating a library or executable

- Cargo.toml

- Cargo.lock

- exploring the source

- cargo tools

- hello world program

- Basic syntax

- functions

- variables

- types

- structs and enums

- control flow: if, loops, pattern matching

- exercise: the guessing game

- Ownership

- moves

- mutability

- borrowing

- lifetimes

- exercise: fixing borrow checker compilation errors

- Modules

- importing code

- visibility

- source code organisation

- Traits and generics

- methods

- generic types, functions and methods

- type aliases

- Standard library

- Option

- Result

- collections: Vec, HashMap

- iterators

- exercise: start building a small in memory database

# Day 2

- Tools

- importing crates

- unit tests

- benchmarks

- fuzzing

- documentation

- attributes

- exercise: integrate unit tests, CI and other tools for the database example

- Strings and slices

- String

- &str

- &[u8]

- Iterators

- Closures

- exercise: start implementing queries

- Destructuring

- if let

- API design

- Usual traits

- Clone and Copy

- Debug and Display

- PartialEq, Eq

- Drop

- Static VS dynamic dispatch

- Associated types

- Deref

- Into

- I/O

- exercise: add optional file storage for the database

- Concurrency

- threads

- channels

- Send, Sync

- mutability

- Arc, Mutex

- exercise: multiple clients querying the database while storing regularly

# Day 3

- FFI

- repr(C)

- exporting functions and structures

- unsafe

- Box

- rusty-cheddar and rust-bindgen

- linking

- cargo-vendor

- exercise: making a C interface for our in memory database

- common libraries and interfaces (adaptable depending on what the students want to focus on)

- docs.rs

- Command

- clap

- serde

- log

- tokio

- rocket

- lazy_static

- nom