🦀 Rust Programming Roadmap (Structured from PDF Only)

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Module 1: Introduction & Setup

Topics

• What is Rust?
• Why use Rust?
• Installing Rust and Cargo
• IDEs and Rust Toolchains
• Rust REPL (Rust Playground)

Project 1: First Rust Program

• Run a basic Rust program using Cargo

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Module 2: Language Basics

Topics

• Syntax and Semantics
• Variables, Data Types and Constants
• Control Flow and Constructs
• Functions and Method Syntax
• Pattern Matching & Destructuring

Project 2: Basic Control Flow Program

• Build a simple program using conditions, loops, and functions

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Module 3: Data Structures

Topics

• Integers, Boolean, Floats, Character
• Tuple, String, Array
• Vector, HashMap, HashSet
• LinkedList, Stack, Queue, Binary Heap

Project 3: Data Collection Program

• Store and manipulate data using vectors and hashmaps

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Module 4: Ownership System

Topics

• Ownership Rules & Memory Safety
• Borrowing, References and Slices
• Stack vs Heap

Project 4: Memory-Safe Data Handling

• Create a program demonstrating ownership and borrowing

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Module 5: Constructs (Core Abstractions)

Topics

• Enums
• Structs
• Traits
• Impl Blocks

Project 5: Struct-Based System

• Model data using structs and enums with methods

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Module 6: Error Handling

Topics

• Option and Result Enumerations
• Propagating Errors and ? Operator
• Custom Error Types and Traits

Project 6: Error-Safe Program

• Handle failures using Result and Option

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Module 7: Modules & Crates

Topics

• Code Organization & Namespacing
• Dependency Management with Cargo
• Publishing on Crates.io

Project 7: Multi-Module Project

• Split code into modules and manage dependencies

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Module 8: Traits & Generics

Topics

• Trait Definitions & Implementations
• Trait Bounds and Associated Types
• Generics & Type-Level Programming

Project 8: Generic Implementation

• Build reusable logic using generics and traits

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Module 9: Lifetimes & Borrow Checker

Topics

• Explicit Lifetime Annotations
• Lifetime Elision Rules
• Covariant & Contravariant Lifetimes

Project 9: Lifetime-Safe System

• Write functions with explicit lifetime handling

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Module 10: Concurrency & Parallelism

Topics

• Threads, Channels and Message Passing
• Atomic Operations & Memory Barriers
• Futures and Async/Await Paradigm

Project 10: Concurrent Program

• Build a multi-threaded or async task system

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Module 11: Advanced Topics

Topics

• BTreeMap, BTreeSet
• Rc, Arc
• Mutex, RwLock
• Channels

Project 11: Shared State System

• Handle shared data across threads safely

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Module 12: Testing

Topics

• Unit & Integration Testing
• Mocking & Property Based Testing

Project 12: Tested Application

• Add tests to an existing project

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Module 13: Macros & Metaprogramming

Topics

• macro_rules!
• Procedural Macros & Custom Derive
• Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)

Project 13: Macro Usage

• Implement or use macros in a project

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Module 14: Web Development Ecosystem

Topics

• Axum
• Actix
• Leptos
• Loco
• Rocket

Project 14: Web Application

• Build a web service using one framework

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Module 15: Asynchronous Programming

Topics

• Tokio
• async-std
• smol

Project 15: Async Application

• Build an async-based system

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Module 16: Networking

Topics

• reqwest
• hyper
• quinn

Project 16: Network Client/Server

• Send and receive HTTP requests

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Module 17: Serialization

Topics

• Serde
• json-rust
• toml-rust

Project 17: Data Serialization Tool

• Convert data to/from JSON or TOML

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Module 18: Database & ORM

Topics

• Diesel
• sqlx
• rusqlite

Project 18: Database Application

• Store and retrieve data from a database

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Module 19: CLI Development

Topics

• clap
• structopt
• termion

Project 19: CLI Tool

• Build a command-line application

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Module 20: Debugging & Performance

Topics

• rust-gdb
• rust-lldb
• rustdoc
• Criterion.rs

Project 20: Optimized Program

• Debug and benchmark an application

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Module 21: Specialized Domains

Topics

• Game Dev: bevy, fyrox, ggez, macroquad, wgpu-rs
• GUI: tauri, gtk-rs, relm
• Embedded: embedded-hal, rppal, nrf-hal
• WASM: wasm-bindgen, wasm-pack, wasmer
• Cryptography: rust-crypto, sodiumoxide, ring

Project 21: Domain Project

• Choose one domain and build a project