book VS tour_of_rust

Finish again The Book.

Rust was all the hype, and I gave it a try. I read the Rust book and created some small programs. I enjoyed the type system, iterators and borrow checker. But I got lost in macros. To me, a program's code should be as explicit as possible.

Link: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

The Rust Book

In this article, I’ve hopefully given you some foundational breadcrumbs in the Rust language. Take these and go off to do your reading, research, and practice. As always, I recommend The Rust Programming Language for further reading and detail.

So... why should I buy a $35 introductory programming book in 2024?

Here are some free introductory Rust books:

  - The Rust Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

The Rust Programming Language

2. Learning Programming Languages Solana development primarily uses Rust, but you can also use C, C++, or Anchor (a Rust-based framework) for smart contracts. Here’s how to get started: Rust Programming Rust is a systems programming language known for performance and memory safety. Learn Rust via: The Rust Book: The official guide to mastering Rust. Interactive tutorials and exercises on YouTube. JavaScript/TypeScript The Solana ecosystem leverages JavaScript or TypeScript for interacting with dApps on the frontend. Key skills: Fetching blockchain data using Solana's libraries. Using the Solana Web3.js library to connect to the network and interact with smart contracts.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ is great. I’d been writing Rust for months before I started reading it and still began learning new things from the start. Oh, that’s why it does this!

I was using the Rust Book, (I still am), but in order to avoid being caught in tutorial hell, I asked Chat-GPT to suggest projects I can build in order of difficulty to solidify the concepts as I go along. It came back with the following suggestions:

https://tourofrust.com/ is fun. Learning rust has a weird initial learning curve dealing with the aggressive analyzer/compiler and how you have to approach your variables, but after that initial hump it is one of the coziest languages I've used. Having what was initially a bit of a nag, is now a godsend when i'm getting red-squiggles in vscode for a typo in my SQL string for a misnamed column, or a field in my template was removed and so my struct shows how it's now unused.

1. 👶 Tour of Rust is a step-by-step guide for the Rust programming language. It gives a nice overview of the language and allows the learner to also modify the code examples to experiment.

Another good learning resource is the Tour of Rust, which is more hands-on than The Book. It has a code example (which you can edit and run directly) in every section.

The bonus by learning this way is that the Rust compiler gives amazing feedback allowing you to intentionally experiment by breaking the examples. https://tourofrust.com/ was my first superficial pass.

Tour of Rust - Richard Anaya

Other languages have similar ones like https://tourofrust.com/

1. Tour of Rust is a step-by-step guide for the Rust programming language. It gives a nice overview of the language and allows the learner to also modify the code examples to experiment. I would say that the Tour of Rust is not a resource that you would rely on by itself.

I really liked https://tourofrust.com/ Helped me a ton.