Rust Quick Start Guide

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright and Credits
   1. Rust Quick Start Guide
3. About Packt
   1. Why subscribe?
   2. Packt.com
4. Contributors
   1. About the author
   2. About the reviewers
   3. Packt is searching for authors like you
5. Preface
   1. Who this book is for
   2. What this book covers
   3. To get the most out of this book
      1. Download the example code files
      2. Download the color images
      3. Conventions used
   4. Get in touch
      1. Reviews
6. Getting Ready
   1. Installing Rust
   2. Starting a new project
      1. Project metadata
         1. Dependencies on libraries from crates.io
         2. Dependencies on Git repositories
         3. Dependencies on local libraries
      2. Automatically generated source files
   3. Compiling our project
      1. Debug and release builds
      2. Dynamic libraries, software distribution, and Rust
   4. Using crates.io
   5. Summary
7. Basics of the Rust Language
   1. Functions
      1. Defining a function
   2. Modules
      1. Defining a module
         1. A module as a section of a file
         2. A module as a separate file
      2. Accessing module contents from outside
         1. Using the item's full name directly
         2. Using the item's short name
         3. Public and private module items
   3. Expressions
      1. Literal expressions
      2. Operator expressions
      3. Array and tuple expressions
      4. Block expressions
      5. Branch expressions
      6. Loop expressions
         1. while loops
         2. for loops
   4. Variables, types, and mutability
      1. Type inference
   5. Data structures
      1. Mutability of data structures
   6. More about functions
      1. Parameters
      2. Return types
      3. Error handling
         1. Using Result to signal success or failure
         2. Calling functions that return Result
   7. Implementing behavior for types
   8. Summary
8. The Big Ideas – Ownership and Borrowing
   1. Scope and ownership
      1. The stack
   2. Transferring ownership
   3. Copying
   4. Lending
      1. Lending immutably
      2. Lending mutably
   5. Accessing borrowed data
   6. The lifetime of borrowed data
   7. Ownership and the self parameter
      1. Moving self
      2. Borrowing self
      3. Mutably borrowing self
   8. Summary
9. Making Decisions by Pattern Matching
   1. Variable assignment with pattern matching
   2. Using if let expressions to test whether a pattern matches
   3. Using match to choose one of several patterns
   4. Using don't care in patterns
   5. Moving and borrowing in pattern matches
   6. Matching tuples and other more complex patterns
      1. Nested patterns
      2. Storing a matched value and comparing it to a pattern
      3. Ignoring most of a data structure
   7. Gotchas
      1. Not all values can be matched against a literal pattern
      2. Patterns assign values to variable names
   8. Summary
10. One Data Type Representing Multiple Kinds of Data
    1. Enumerations
       1. Basic enumerations
       2. Parameterized enumerations
       3. Checking the value type and extracting parameter values
       4. Result is an enumeration, accessed via the prelude
    2. Traits and trait objects
       1. Traits
          1. Implementing our PrintableDirection trait
       2. Trait objects
          1. Using our PrintableDirection trait
          2. Trait objects only provide access to the trait interface
    3. Any
       1. Any can store almost anything
       2. But to access it we have to already know about the real data type
    4. Comparison of these techniques
    5. Summary
11. Heap Memory and Smart Pointers
    1. Box
       1. Box and variable size
       2. Box and Any
    2. Vec and String
       1. String
       2. Vec
    3. Rc
       1. Weak references
    4. Cell and RefCell
       1. Cell
       2. What's the point?
       3. RefCell
    5. Arc
    6. Mutex and RwLock
    7. Summary
12. Generic Types
    1. Types with generic type parameters
    2. Limiting what types can be used for type parameters
    3. Implementing functionality for types with generic type parameters
    4. Using generic types as function return values
    5. Compiler errors involving generic type parameters
    6. Generic types on functions outside of implementation blocks
    7. Alternative ways to write trait bounds
    8. Generic types versus trait objects
    9. Higher-order functions and trait bounds that represent functions
    10. Complete implementation of a binary tree with generic type parameters
    11. Summary
13. Important Standard Traits
    1. Traits that can be derived
       1. Clone
       2. Copy
       3. Debug
       4. PartialEq
       5. Eq
       6. PartialOrd
       7. Ord
       8. Hash
       9. Default
    2. Traits that enable operators
       1. ​Add, Mul, Sub, and Div
       2. AddAssign, MulAssign, SubAssign, and DivAssign
       3. BitAnd
       4. BitAndAssign
       5. BitOr
       6. BitOrAssign
       7. BitXor
       8. BitXorAssign
       9. Deref
       10. DerefMut
       11. Drop
       12. Index
       13. IndexMut
       14. Neg
       15. Not
       16. Rem and RemAssign
       17. Shl and ShlAssign
       18. Shr and ShrAssign
    3. Traits that are implemented automatically
       1. Sync
       2. Send
       3. Sized
       4. Fn
       5. FnMut
       6. FnOnce
    4. Summary
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