A complete guide to programming with the Rust programming language, targeted at new and experienced programmers alike
A complete guide to programming with the Rust programming language, targeted at new and experienced programmers alike
The Begin Rust ebook is available for order. Your purchase will include PDF, ePub, Mobi (Kindle), and HTML versions of the book, all DRM free. It also includes all future updates to the book.
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We're happy to announce that Begin Rust is also available on Educative, an online, interactive learning platform. Check out The Ultimate Guide to Rust Programming.
The book is now complete, but we will continue making improvements to the digital copy based on user feedback. You can get the digital copy from Gumroad, the print copy from Amazon, or the interactive online version with Educative.
We're considering writing more books on either Haskell or Rust. Let us know what you'd like to see.
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Begin Rust is a complete guide to the Rust programming language. If you're a new programmer looking to get into a first language, or an experienced programmer looking to learn the Rust language, we hope this book will serve you well.
Read the first three chapters for free now!
Rust is a relatively new programming language that has gained significant popularity in the past few years. It is pioneered by Mozilla, and is designed to solve some major problems in the programming community. We won't try to sell you on Rust here. If you want more information, please check out the Rust homepage.
Rust has a reputation of being difficult to learn. While Rust is a powerful and flexible language, we also believe that it can be approachable, given the right learning path. This book is aimed at making Rust as easy as possible to learn for people of all skill levels.
Michael and Miriam have been working on documentation, blog posts, tutorials, and books aimed at programmers for years. They've written countless blog posts on their personal blog, the Yesod Web Framework blog, and elsewhere. They have written previously on web development in the Haskell programming language in the O'Reilly book Developing Web Apps with Haskell and Yesod.
Michael is a prolific open source developer, authoring and maintaining dozens of popular libraries in the Haskell ecosystem. Michael has been in software development for twenty years, and regularly speaks on the topic and provides training. Michael is passionate about teaching programming and making it accessible. This book is the latest culmination of that passion.
Miriam has a background in linguistics, and has been programming off and on for the past 14 years. Miriam has regularly read, reviewed, edited, and generally improved a large body of technical writing on Haskell and Rust. More recently, Miriam has stepped into the role of educator, using this book as a basis for teaching Rust to school-aged new programmers.
We've taken great care to make this book approachable for a wide variety of audiences. We've focused intensely on making sure the content builds upon itself linearly, avoiding confusion among new learners. We've provided appropriate exercises throughout to reinforce the material.
Given our original audience of younger programmers, we knew that we needed to provide a rewarding experience, minimizing failure points as much as possible. This has allowed us to use this as a teaching text, and we believe it will encourage success for others as well. If you're a programmer looking to help your friends or family learn programming, or you yourself have had trouble picking up Rust in the past, we think this is a great resource.
And while this attention to detail may not be vital for experienced programmers looking to pick up a new language, we think you'll enjoy the gentle onramping it provides.
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