Hero roadmap: the whole course on one page

All 50 lessons

Fifty lessons, one arc: from first steps to two finished capstones. Lessons 1 through 40 are collected on the Rust course index page, and the newest ten link below by their exact titles:

Lessons 1 to 10:

• Lesson 01: What is Rust and where it runs
• Lesson 02: Install Rust
• Lesson 03: cargo new
• Lesson 04: Your first program
• Lesson 05: Variables
• Lesson 06: Numbers
• Lesson 07: Strings
• Lesson 08: Booleans
• Lesson 09: Tuples
• Lesson 10: Arrays

Lessons 11 to 20:

• Lesson 11: Vectors
• Lesson 12: Slices
• Lesson 13: if and else
• Lesson 14: match
• Lesson 15: Loops
• Lesson 16: Ownership
• Lesson 17: Borrowing
• Lesson 18: Lifetimes
• Lesson 19: Functions
• Lesson 20: Structs

Lessons 21 to 30:

• Lesson 21: Enums in Rust
• Lesson 22: Advanced match in Rust
• Lesson 23: Option combinators in Rust
• Lesson 24: Result and the question mark in Rust
• Lesson 25: Advanced strings in Rust
• Lesson 26: Vec methods in Rust
• Lesson 27: HashMaps in Rust
• Lesson 28: Modules in Rust
• Lesson 29: Crates and workspaces in Rust
• Lesson 30: Testing in Rust

Lessons 31 to 40:

• Lesson 31: Error handling
• Lesson 32: Traits
• Lesson 33: Generics
• Lesson 34: Trait bounds
• Lesson 35: Closures
• Lesson 36: Iterators
• Lesson 37: Smart pointers
• Lesson 38: Threads
• Lesson 39: Mutex and Arc
• Lesson 40: Files

Lessons 41 to 50:

• Lesson 41: CLI arguments
• Lesson 42: Environment variables
• Lesson 43: Diagnostics
• Lesson 44: Time
• Lesson 45: Parsing strings
• Lesson 46: TCP networking
• Lesson 47: Capstone: wordfreq CLI
• Lesson 48: Capstone: tiny HTTP server
• Lesson 49: Modern Rust tour
• Lesson 50: Hero roadmap: the whole course on one page

How to practice

Read with the compiler open. Type every snippet by hand, break it once on purpose, then read the error until the fix is obvious.

Small daily reps beat weekend marathons. One lesson per day finishes the course in under two months with the habits intact.

Two capstones, revisited

Two projects prove the fifty lessons: the wordfreq CLI from lesson 47 and the tiny HTTP server from lesson 48. Rebuild both from an empty file before calling the course done.

Revisited means improved: add flags to wordfreq and extra routes to the server. Finished tools teach more than finished tutorials.

Where to go next

Rust rides on systems ideas that predate it. For the memory and socket depth under everything here, study C for systems depth next.

Then pick a direction: systems servers, command line tools, or embedded work. The roadmap got you here, and a shipped project takes you onward.

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Article author: Arthur Isaev