on-demand course

Hands-On Systems Programming with Rust

with Nathan Stocks

February 2020

Intermediate

2h 15m

English

Packt Publishing

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Course outline

Course Overview
3m 20s
Systems Programming in Rust
5m 59s
Configuring your editor/IDE
4m 13s
The Many Faces of Cargo
9m 46s
Preview finished project
1m 3s
Layout the skeleton of the project
2m 50s
Read from stdin, count bytes, write to stdout
8m 45s
Inspect values with dbg
4m 44s
Working effectively with cargo fmt and clippy
4m 45s
Handle errors gracefully
6m 12s
Handle command-line arguments with clap
5m 28s
Reading/Writing files, Buffered I/O, Traits
5m 32s
Working effectively with organized library modules
11m 3s
Separate input, statistics, and output threads
12m 22s
Operate with mpsc channels for data flow in sequence
8m 21s
Refactor code to use crossbeam channels
6m 51s
Working with Instant
1m 57s
Calculate a delta time using Instants
3m 24s
Use Durations to create an ergonomic Timer struct
2m 57s
Using Timer, output progress statistics at a steady rate
3m 59s
Applying crossterm, and colourizing the output
4m 53s
Create a library and organize it into modules
4m 32s
Write and run tests on your code
2m 49s
Document your code
3m 26s
Understand the in's and out's of semantic versioning
2m 4s
Publish your project as a crate on crates.io
4m 23s

Overview

In this 2-hour course, dive into the world of systems programming with Rust to combine safety, concurrency, and performance. You'll build a middleware utility while learning Rust's memory safety, thread safety, and zero-cost abstractions, ensuring robust and efficient applications.

What I will be able to do after this course

Learn to utilize Rust's memory safety guarantees for secure programming.
Master techniques for multithreading to enhance performance and concurrency.
Create and integrate a middleware utility for data flow monitoring.
Work extensively with Rust's standard library for I/O and channel operations.
Develop, test, and deploy a complete application to crates.io.

Course Instructor(s)

Nathan Stocks combines a deep passion for systems programming with a dedication to teaching Rust. With years of experience developing high-performance applications, his structured and hands-on teaching approach will guide you step by step through mastering Rust's capabilities.

Who is it for?

This course is ideal for software developers who are transitioning to systems programming or enhancing their current expertise with Rust. It suits intermediate Linux and Unix programmers or anyone familiar with C/C++ concurrency. Prior programming experience and a basic understanding of Rust are expected.