Mastering Rust

New-age Programing Language for Software Development

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5 Days (8 hours per day)

Level

Advanced Level

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This course aims to transition Rust programmers with an intermediate understanding of the language to an advanced level of proficiency. Participants will explore in-depth concepts including advanced ownership and borrowing, concurrency, unsafe Rust, macros, and more. Through a combination of theoretical lessons and hands-on projects.

Participants will also learn to leverage Rust’s features for systems programming, network applications, and performance-critical tasks, preparing them to tackle complex, real-world software challenges with Rust.

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Review of Rust Basics

Quick recap of Rust syntax and features
Memory safety, ownership, and borrowing
Error handling and match statements

Advanced Ownership and Borrowing

Deep dive into ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes
Advanced patterns in ownership and borrowing
Lifetime annotations and their impact on code robustness
Understanding ‘static and ‘dangling lifetimes
Case studies: Real-world scenarios of ownership problems
Exercise: Refactoring code for better ownership models

Concurrency in Rust

Exploring threads and message passing for concurrency
Shared state concurrency and synchronization techniques (Mutex, Arc)
Advanced asynchronous programming with async/await
Building scalable systems with Tokio
Case studies: Designing high-performance concurrent applications
Exercise: Implementing a multi-threaded web server

Advanced Traits and Generics

Trait Objects and dynamic Dispatch
Associated types and type-level programming
Advance use of generics

Unsafe Rust

Understanding unsafe Rust: When and how to use it
Working with raw pointers and external C code
Ensuring safety in unsafe blocks
FFI (Foreign Function Interface) best practices
Case studies: Integrating Rust with C libraries
Exercise: Safe abstraction over unsafe code

Macros and Metaprogramming

Deep dive into macros for code generation
Declarative Macros vs. Procedural Macros
Advanced macro patterns and best practices
Building domain-specific languages (DSLs)
Debugging and Troubleshooting macros
Case studies: Leveraging macros in real-world projects
Exercise: Writing a custom macro for boilerplate code reduction

Performance Optimization

Profiling Rust applications and identifying bottlenecks
Efficient memory management strategies
Optimizing CPU usage and understanding cache performance
Parallelism and SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data)
Case studies: Performance tuning in high-load systems
Exercise: Optimizing an existing Rust application for performance

Network Programming

Building network applications with Rust
Asynchronous IO with Tokio
Implementing protocols and handling concurrency

Systems Programming

Building command-line tools
File I/O and system interaction
Cross-compilation and embedded systems
Interfacing with other programming languages
Writing low-level code

Advanced Features and Ecosystem

Exploring advanced type system features (PhantomData, type-level programming)
Advanced error handling patterns
Leveraging the Rust ecosystem for web development, CLI tools, and embedded systems
Exploring new and noteworthy Rust libraries and frameworks

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