13 years of senior developers share a year of learning rust experience: from the necessary bibliography to code practice

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How to learn Rust,Hacker News There is such a tutorial on fire .

It is different from the similar several hour speed tutorials on the network , But through their own learning experience to point out a learning Rust The path of .

After the tutorial is sent , Netizens are also there Hacker News Posted his own learning experience .

understand Rust Relevant books and tutorials are very convenient , Even if there is no network , You can also learn offline . I'm not WiFi I learned from my long flight Rust Basic knowledge of . It's really a good way to pass the time ！

Reading related books and writing code are essential for learning a programming language , The two alternate learning to master Rust crucial .

Senior Developer Eli Bendersky He wrote many blogs about code language on his website , One of them is about his one-year study Rust The experience of .

Let's see .

Black and red list of relevant bibliographies

First ,Eli What he read in the tutorial Rust The relevant bibliographies were evaluated .

Programming Rust Generally, it is regarded as an introductory book , This is a Eli Study Rust The first book I read .

The book initially introduces Rust, contains Rust1.50 Comprehensive overview and reference .

Although it is an introductory book , But it still needs a certain programming foundation , Familiar with low-level programming , Especially memory management .

Overall speaking , For an experienced developer （ Preferably C++ background ） Know how to use alternative resources in the project , This book is right Rust A good and comprehensive overview of .

The second is The Rust Programming Language, Compare with Programming Rust,Eli I think this book will be a better reference , Although he has not read the whole book completely , But I have browsed the main part of it .

This book also ranks top in Google , Many people list it as Rust Getting started , from Rust Written by two members of the core team ,42 Feedback and contributions from community members .

The same thing is , Reading this book also requires a programming foundation , This means that these materials are useful for developers with various programming backgrounds .

Sum up , If you want to read these introductory Rust Books , You have to have a certain programming foundation first .

Next, let's talk about Rust in Action, It's about Rust An intermediate book of , It includes several important projects in the field of system programming .

In this book , The method of introduction is very interesting , It's suitable for people who have a preliminary understanding Rust People reading .

besides , It also focuses on system programming , And wrote a lot of really useful code .

But the beauty is , Because this book is still very new , There are many typos in it 、 confusion 、 Serious mismatches between the code listing and the accompanying repository, etc .

Finally, let's talk about Rust for Rustaceans This book , Say first conclusion , Reading is not recommended .

Eli I like the author of this book very much Jon Gjengset Some videos released before , But after reading this book, I was disappointed .

This book is mixed Rust Materials that are better explained and too professional in official books , Just layers of text , There are few charts and code examples , There are hardly any compileable projects to do something useful .

I have learned about learning Rust Related books about , Besides reading, you should also practice writing code properly .

Writing code exercises

In that case , How can we practice effectively ？Eli I also recommend some channels based on my own experience .

If you start learning Rust when , You can use first rustlings, It is used to read and write Rust Code snippet exercises . Although not very comprehensive , But it's still very useful for Xiaobai who just started .

The website is attached at the end of the article .

Say again Advent of Code,2021 The annual edition is very suitable for practice Rust, Altogether 25 A question , Write code according to the instructions in it , To complete the task .

By solving AOC The problem of , Can learn and practice programming language well .

Eli I have finished the previous 18 A question , He also mentioned in his blog , It is likely to be in Rust In dealing with AOC2022, Keep his touch .

The Ray Tracer Challenge book, This book consists of a series “ unit testing ” And pseudo code that is easy to translate into any language , It can be used to guide us to use programming language to realize ray tracker .

While learning new programming languages , We can also build some visual things , Will not feel boring soon .

however , This book explains why the formulas and pseudocodes it provides are valid , It doesn't help cultivate intuition .

This leads to serious errors when debugging problems . Without developing intuition , Therefore, the only way to debug is to carefully compare the code with the pseudo code in the book , To ensure that there is no loss or input error in the transcription process .

Of course, overall , It's worth reading .

Finally, let's talk about Crafting Interpreters, In this book , The author has developed two complete interpreters for the language from beginning to end , Including all front-end and back-end parts .

In the book , All the code of the two interpreters is completely contained in the text and rendered in segments . There is no need to browse the external repository . Directly read and copy the code into your editor to run .

Eli Also have a high evaluation of this book , He believes that this book is among many compiler books he has read , By far the most practical .

In addition to the above ,Eli Many experiments have also been done , Write code to explore Rust In all fields .

If you are interested, you can stamp the link below , Go to his website to see more ~

Reference link ：
rustlings：https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings
AOC：https://adventofcode.com/
[1] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2022/how-i-went-about-learning-rust/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32104764