Learning Rust - An Updating Journal

This is an updating journal of my Rust Programming Language learning journey.

The Method

As the one who convinced me to learn Rust and get into it now rather than later, No Boilerplate holds a warm corner of my heart and will always link to Rust in my head. The method I am taking for learning Rust, at least until I get the hang of it and can roll on my own, is borrowed from his video on learning Rust:

The Book(s)

The Rust Programming Language Book or “The Book” in short, is going to be my main source of information for the start of the journey.

So I’ve been reading the book, as well as the academic version with the excercises provided by Brown University for about two months, on and off during off brakes and bathroom stops, lol.

Once I read through the full book (with the exception of the macros chapter I am deliberately skipping for now) I went and solved the quizzes on the Brown version, as well as read through the ownership chapter since they offer another perspective on the subject that was important for me to read through since it still is a new concept coming from Python.

Rustlings

Following Tris’ advice, the next thing on the list was Rustlings which is a wonderful and very easy-to-work-with project (shoutout to the community for creating such a welcoming experience to the language). I went thourhg Rustlings while staying in Berlin and learning German in the GLS - quite the experience learning these two languages simultenously, makes your brain work extra hard for no reason at all.

Now What

After completing the semi-official training camp I set out for myself, it’s time for a real-world project - cue in Parley. Parley is the e2ee Discord alternative I will be investing my time at suring my recovery from my big surgery I had in August. I have a free-ish half a year at least to work on it, and I want to build something big, which is what Parley is for. Follow #parley for more ;)