Hi All!

Welcome to week 2 of Reading Club for Rust’s “The Book” (“The Rust Programming Language”).

Have a shot at going through “the reading” and post any thoughts, confusions or insights here

“The Reading”

• Chapter 3: “Common Programming Concepts”
  • The Book: https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/title-page.html (the special Brown University version with quizzes etc)

Basically covering the fundamentals of the language before getting to grips with the borrow checker next chapter

The Twitch Stream

• @sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works twitch stream on this chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQk1ovrwja4 (YouTube)
• Be sure to catch future streams (will/should be weekly: https://www.twitch.tv/deerfromsmoke)

Video Tutorial

• Andy Balaam’s videos on PeerTube are great.
• For this section, see “Rust 101 - 2: Language Basics” makes a good companion piece.
  • On PeerTube: https://diode.zone/w/p/xesbWmNanEHNBfJCZFQRUm?playlistPosition=2&resume=true
  • On lemmy (lemmy.ml in this case): https://lemmy.ml/post/11655882 (getting the peertube into your lemmy instance requires a little bit of work. See the discussion here but is worth it because then you can comment directly on the video and hopefully get a response from Andy or anyone else watching)

What’s Next Week?

• Chapter 4 … Understanding Ownership
• Start thinking about challenges or puzzles to try as we go in order to get some applied practice!
  • EG, Advent of Code … I think @sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works is going to be running sessions on this on twitch? (Thursday 6.30pm EST (New York))?
  • Maybe some basic/toy web apps such as a “todo”