Hi All!
Welcome to week 2 of Reading Club for Rust’s “The Book” (“The Rust Programming Language”).
Have a shot at going through “the reading” and post any thoughts, confusions or insights here
“The Reading”
- Chapter 3: “Common Programming Concepts”
- The Book: https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/title-page.html (the special Brown University version with quizzes etc)
Basically covering the fundamentals of the language before getting to grips with the borrow checker next chapter
The Twitch Stream
- @sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works twitch stream on this chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQk1ovrwja4 (YouTube)
- Be sure to catch future streams (will/should be weekly: https://www.twitch.tv/deerfromsmoke)
Video Tutorial
- Andy Balaam’s videos on PeerTube are great.
- For this section, see “Rust 101 - 2: Language Basics” makes a good companion piece.
- On PeerTube: https://diode.zone/w/p/xesbWmNanEHNBfJCZFQRUm?playlistPosition=2&resume=true
- On lemmy (lemmy.ml in this case): https://lemmy.ml/post/11655882 (getting the peertube into your lemmy instance requires a little bit of work. See the discussion here but is worth it because then you can comment directly on the video and hopefully get a response from Andy or anyone else watching)
What’s Next Week?
- Chapter 4 … Understanding Ownership
- Start thinking about challenges or puzzles to try as we go in order to get some applied practice!
- EG, Advent of Code … I think @sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works is going to be running sessions on this on twitch? (Thursday 6.30pm EST (New York))?
- Maybe some basic/toy web apps such as a “todo”
Similarly for conditionls:
let condition = 10; let number = { if condition > 5 { condition * 10 } else if condition > 2 { condition } else { condition / 10 } };