Rust Tutorial

Rust is a statically typed, memory-safe systems language that guarantees thread safety without a garbage collector. This roadmap builds from first principles — syntax, then ownership and borrowing, abstractions, and on to concurrency, async, and the ecosystem — one small, gradual step at a time.

Scope: Study the lessons in order, compile each example locally with rustc (or cargo run), and treat the index as a fast-forward, not a reference manual.

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#	RUST	Topic	Description
PHASE 1: FOUNDATIONS
	01	Overview	Rust's purpose, safety model, and ecosystem.
	02	Setup & Toolchain	Install rustup, Cargo, and your first program.
	03	Syntax & Expressions	Statements, expressions, comments, keywords.
	04	Scalar Types & Variables	Integers, floats, bool, char, inference, casting.
	05	Composite Types	Tuples, arrays, structs, and enums.
	06	Strings & Text	&str vs String, formatting, UTF-8.
PHASE 2: OWNERSHIP & FUNCTIONS
	07	Ownership & Borrowing	Moves, references, and the borrow checker.
	08	Lifetimes	Reference validity and elision.
	09	Functions & Closures	fn, return values, and closures.
	10	Collections	Vec, HashMap, HashSet, and slices.
	11	Control Flow	if, match, and loops.
PHASE 3: ABSTRACTION & ERRORS
	12	Traits & Generics	Traits, generics, and trait objects.
	13	Modules & Crates	mod, use, pub, and code organization.
	14	Error Handling	Option, Result, and the ? operator.
	15	Iterators & Closures	Lazy pipelines and combinators.
	16	Smart Pointers	Box, Rc/Arc, and RefCell.
PHASE 4: PROFESSIONAL
	17	Testing & Documentation	#[test], integration tests, doc-tests.
	18	File I/O	Reading and writing files and JSON.
	19	Packages & crates.io	Cargo packages and dependencies.
	20	Frameworks & Ecosystem	Web, async, and embedded crates.
	21	Concurrency	Threads, channels, and sync primitives.
	22	Async & Futures	async/await and the tokio runtime.
PHASE 5: PRACTICE & REFERENCE
	23	Lab Examples	Single-file practice demos.
	24	Study Projects	Composed mini-projects.
	25	References & Tools	Playgrounds, docs, courses, samples.

Credits: Lesson content drafted with DeepSeek via Fireworks AI. References: free tutorials and documentation below.

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For the full categorized table — online Rust playgrounds, official documentation, courses, and sample codebases — see the References & Tools page.