Rust Learning Roadmap

A curated collection of resources and progress tracking for my Rust programming journey.

🎯 Learning Goals

• Master Rust fundamentals and idiomatic patterns
• Understand memory safety without garbage collection
• Build efficient, concurrent, and reliable systems
• Contribute to the Rust ecosystem

📚 Core Resources

Official Documentation

• The Rust Programming Language (The Rust Book) - The primary resource for learning Rust

  • Chapter 1: Getting Started
  • Chapter 2: Programming a Guessing Game
  • Chapter 3: Common Programming Concepts
  • Chapter 4: Understanding Ownership
  • Chapter 5: Using Structs
  • Chapter 6: Enums and Pattern Matching
  • Chapter 7: Managing Projects
  • Chapter 8: Common Collections
  • Chapter 9: Error Handling
  • Chapter 10: Generic Types, Traits, and Lifetimes
  • Chapter 11: Writing Automated Tests
  • Chapter 12: An I/O Project
  • Chapter 13: Functional Language Features
  • Chapter 14: More about Cargo
  • Chapter 15: Smart Pointers
  • Chapter 16: Fearless Concurrency
  • Chapter 17: Object-Oriented Programming Features
  • Chapter 18: Patterns and Matching
  • Chapter 19: Advanced Features
  • Chapter 20: Final Project

• Rust by Example - Learn Rust through annotated examples

  • Basics
  • Custom Types
  • Variable Bindings
  • Types
  • Conversion
  • Expressions
  • Flow of Control
  • Functions
  • Modules
  • Crates
  • Attributes
  • Generics
  • Scoping Rules
  • Traits
  • Macros

Interactive Learning

• Rustlings - Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code
  • Variables
  • Functions
  • If
  • Move Semantics
  • Primitive Types
  • Structs
  • Enums
  • Modules
  • Collections
  • Strings
  • Error Handling
  • Generics
  • Option
  • Traits
  • Tests
  • Standard Library Types
  • Threads
  • Macros
  • Clippy
  • Conversions

Video Courses

• Crust of Rust (Jon Gjengset)
  • Lifetime Annotations
  • Smart Pointers and Interior Mutability
  • Channels
  • Iterators
  • Sorting Algorithms
  • Declarative Macros
  • Subtyping and Variance
  • Dispatch and Fat Pointers
  • Atomics and Memory Ordering

🛠️ Practice Projects

CLI Applications

• File system analyzer
• Task manager
• Text processor

WebAssembly

• Interactive web application