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Learning Rust

By : Vesa Kaihlavirta
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Learning Rust

By: Vesa Kaihlavirta

Overview of this book

Rust is a highly concurrent and high performance language that focuses on safety and speed, memory management, and writing clean code. It also guarantees thread safety, and its aim is to improve the performance of existing applications. Its potential is shown by the fact that it has been backed by Mozilla to solve the critical problem of concurrency. Learning Rust will teach you to build concurrent, fast, and robust applications. From learning the basic syntax to writing complex functions, this book will is your one stop guide to get up to speed with the fundamentals of Rust programming. We will cover the essentials of the language, including variables, procedures, output, compiling, installing, and memory handling. You will learn how to write object-oriented code, work with generics, conduct pattern matching, and build macros. You will get to know how to communicate with users and other services, as well as getting to grips with generics, scoping, and more advanced conditions. You will also discover how to extend the compilation unit in Rust. By the end of this book, you will be able to create a complex application in Rust to move forward with.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Credits
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Title Page
Preface
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1
Introducing and Installing Rust
4
Conditions, Recursion, and Loops

Task 2 – cleaning the code (part 2)


While each function is kept apart in the crate, we can always clean up the code to make it safer (we have a single public function and keep the calculations away from prying eyes).

The task

Each function takes a single parameter of either the f32 or i32 type and thankfully, we can separate out the modules to be those that return an f32 or i32 (the bases all return i32: all of the others have their answers in f32).

If we look at the temperatures module, everything will return the answer as f32 (after task 1, how it does this is up to you). We can therefore create a single function that takes as the first parameter the conversion to be performed and as the second the value.

When the single function recognizes the first parameter, it calls the now private functions and returns the value.

As with the first task, you will need to implement this and create documentation for the new library. You should create a new unit test for the crate and test it in your test...