FITech MOOC Modern and emerging programming languages: Rust

Course contents

Tooling, Syntax and basic concepts, Ownership and borrowing, Control flow, Error handling, Data structures, Loops and iteration, User input, Command line applications, Modules and crates, Structs, Enums, Traits, Generics, Memory and lifetimes, Macros, Attributes and Testing.

Learning outcomes

After successfully completing this course, the student

• knows the key features of the Rust programming language and can contrast these features with those in some of the earlier programming languages with low-level memory access
• knows the types of problems that Rust is designed to solve, and knows how to solve such problems with Rust
• can design and implement basic programs with Rust, knows about Rust-specific working practices, knows about some of the advanced features in Rust, and can independently navigate Rust documentation.

Course material

The course uses open source software. Participants are expected to be comfortable with installing Rust specific software tools and using them on the command line. The materials, exercises and course completion information can all be found on the course page.

Completion methods

This course is completed by reading the course materials and completing the course exercises.

Prerequisites

You benefit from basic programming skills, familiarity with working on the command line, and familiarity with using programming environments. This course is suitable for anyone interested in expanding their programming language toolkit or diving into a modern systems programming language.

This MOOC course is part of the FITech network university’s offering. Read more about FITech here (Avautuu uuteen välilehteen).