Rust Fundamentals training

Day 1

Introduction to Rust, language fundamentals, ownership and borrowing. At the end of the day, attendees will be able to explain what Rust is, what its main features and tooling ecosystem offer, and how it fulfills its memory-safety promises. They will be able to set up a basic Rust project, write functions and closures using variable bindings, control flow and operators, and apply Rust's unique ownership and borrowing rules that guarantee memory safety.

Day 2

Functional programming concepts, pattern matching and error handling, collections and iterators, generics, traits and lifetimes. At the end of the day, attendees will be able to explain how functional programming concepts like higher-order functions, immutability and algebraic data types apply to Rust. They will be able to read and write more advanced applications using proper error handling with Option and Result types, effectively use standard library collections and iterators, and apply the trait system to create reusable abstractions and share behavior among types.

Day 3

Memory management and dynamic polymorphism, project organization and tooling, I/O and serialization, advanced language features. At the end of the day, attendees will be able to choose the proper memory management strategy using smart pointers and interior mutability, and apply dynamic polymorphism with trait objects. They will be able to set up and structure Rust projects including tests, documentation and essential tooling like Cargo and Clippy, work with files, streams and data serialization, and use advanced language features like the newtype idiom, operator overloading and const generics.

Day 4

Concurrency, unsafe Rust and foreign function interfaces, macros and the tooling ecosystem, application domains. Optional topics (on request): cross-compilation, advanced async programming. At the end of the day, attendees will be able to write concurrent programs using threads and basic asynchronous programming, and understand how unsafe code can be applied prudently, for example for high-performance requirements or to interface with C and C++ code. They will understand the three forms of macros in Rust, be able to write basic declarative macros, and know how to leverage the tooling and crate ecosystem. When leaving the course, they are equipped with knowledge of how Rust applies to various domains and have handles to sources for further professional development in Rust.