Syllabus

Chapter 1: Down the Rust Rabbit Hole

• 1.1 What is Rust?

  • Overview of the language.

  • What makes Rust special.

  • Why choose Rust? Safety, performance, and concurrency.

  • Installing Rust (Rustup, Cargo).

• 1.2 Your First Rust Program

  • Setting up the environment.

  • Writing and running a simple "Hello, World!" program.

  • Understanding the Rust compiler.

  • Creating and managing projects with Cargo.

  • Adding dependencies.

Chapter 2: The Mad Tea Party of Variables and Types

• Immutable and mutable variables.

• Data types in Rust (primitive and compound types).

Chapter 3: Through the Looking Glass of Ownership

• Understanding ownership (our most important tea party rule!)

• Borrowing and references.

• The peculiar concept of lifetimes