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Rust Quick Start Guide

By : Daniel Arbuckle
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Rust Quick Start Guide

By: Daniel Arbuckle

Overview of this book

Rust is an emerging programming language applicable to areas such as embedded programming, network programming, system programming, and web development. This book will take you from the basics of Rust to a point where your code compiles and does what you intend it to do! This book starts with an introduction to Rust and how to get set for programming, including the rustup and cargo tools for managing a Rust installation and development work?ow. Then you'll learn about the fundamentals of structuring a Rust program, such as functions, mutability, data structures, implementing behavior for types, and many more. You will also learn about concepts that Rust handles differently from most other languages. After understanding the Basics of Rust programming, you will learn about the core ideas, such as variable ownership, scope, lifetime, and borrowing. After these key ideas, you will explore making decisions in Rust based on data types by learning about match and if let expressions. After that, you'll work with different data types in Rust, and learn about memory management and smart pointers.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Complete implementation of a binary tree with generic type parameters

We've finally progressed far enough in our journey through Rust that we can produce something truly useful. Our binary tree could still be improved in any number of ways, but it does what it was designed to do: it allows us to easily store and retrieve any number of key/value pairs.

We made no effort to ensure that the binary tree remains balanced, meaning that the left and right branches of each node are approximately the same height, because that wouldn't have added anything to our discussion of generic types. If we had, this data structure would also be guaranteed to be efficient. Balanced binary trees are close to being as good as you can get when it comes to arbitrary key/value data structures.

So, here we have a complete, useful data structure. First we have the actual structure that stores...