Duration
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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- Software developers and engineers with intermediate knowledge of Rust looking to advance their skills.
- Professionals working on high-performance, concurrent, and safe systems.
- Teams aiming to enhance their Rust proficiency for complex project development.
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- Quick recap of Rust syntax and features
- Memory safety, ownership, and borrowing
- Error handling and match statements
- 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
- 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
- Trait Objects and dynamic Dispatch
- Associated types and type-level programming
- Advance use of generics
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Building network applications with Rust
- Asynchronous IO with Tokio
- Implementing protocols and handling concurrency
- Building command-line tools
- File I/O and system interaction
- Cross-compilation and embedded systems
- Interfacing with other programming languages
- Writing low-level code
- 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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- Completion of an introductory Rust course or equivalent experience.
- Solid understanding of Rust’s syntax, ownership, borrowing, and basic concurrency.
- Familiarity with software development tools and environments.
