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What is something that I can do to learn Rust better? I have been through the book, but that's it. What would help me really learn Rust?
by sidcool 8y ago
What is something that I can do to learn Rust better? I have been through the book, but that's it. What would help me really learn Rust?
- justwalt 8y agoFor me, I’ve been rewriting my simple scripts and old school projects in Rust, which has been both enjoyable and informative. Project Euler problems are pretty trivial (wrt coding) but might have some small useful nuggets. The code advent calendar from 2018 is pretty helpful too, and it’s much more code oriented than PE problems. I’ve seen people suggest rewriting the GNU coreutils, and I really like the idea, but not quite enough to go sifting through all of the C headers and all to get to the finish line. Honestly, it probably doesn’t matter much what you start coding as long as you’re coding.
- pimeys 8y agoWhat about a command line utility to do some basic Unix tasks? Usually those are the easiest and usually also very fun things to do to learn Rust.
- wyldfire 8y ago"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" Seriously, the best thing to do for virtually all professional or hobby work is to get more experience with it. Choose a project with small enough scope to give you encouraging results to keep that feedback loop going.
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- sidcool 8y agoThat is a great analogy thanks.
- asdkhadsj 8y agoFrom personal experience, invest in good (for you) resources to learn the language. I had two attempts, and it wasn't until I took "learning" seriously and purchased a book did Rust stick. My first attempt that has worked for all other languages, mostly by just reading docs and programming, was a massive headache. That was years ago though, perhaps it's better now. All I know is after reading Programming Rust, I picked Rust up and it's been amazing. I love the language.