A half-hour to learn Rust

Re:A half-hour to learn Rust by talkingtab on Saturday February 29, 2020 @09:28AM (#22450694)

This is the most useful introduction to a language I have ever read. Often language introductions produce a "Wall of Complexity" and I failed in my last two attempts learning Rust failed because of that. This is just great.

Be warned, the "half hour" part is probably a bit like "99 cents" as a price tag. I've already spent more than that, but it is time well spent.

Thanks for writing this!

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Re:A half-hour to learn Rust by galfarragem on Saturday February 29, 2020 @11:34AM (#22451370)

You might like this: https://learnxinyminutes.com

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Re:A half-hour to learn Rust by nobleach on Saturday February 29, 2020 @12:46PM (#22451827)

I also like Derek Banas videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwRXb5dUK4cvsHbx-rGzSgw) for this same quality. He doesn't do many "deep dives" into the languages, but he does a fantastic job getting your feet wet with very common tasks... much like these learnxinyminutes pages do.

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Re:A half-hour to learn Rust by spectramax on Saturday February 29, 2020 @11:55AM (#22451495)

I use this website as the most effective cheatsheet ever. Forget about PDFs and all these things people put together. Pretty much every programming language is on LearnXinYMinutes and it is like a standardized cheatsheet across all languages. Brilliant, so brilliant!

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Re:A half-hour to learn Rust by da-x on Sunday March 01, 2020 @03:30AM (#22455816)

I wish this could be extended to "Learn X in Y minutes coming from already knowing Z". However this (X,Z) matrix is hard to maintain...

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Re:A half-hour to learn Rust by chris_st on Saturday February 29, 2020 @11:41AM (#22451422)

I agree, this is a great page.

I failed to make it through the Rust book in (I think) 2017, and kind of hated it; I made it through easily in 2019 and enjoyed it... the book has improved that much. Oh, and the compiler error messages are better, too, which helps enormously.

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Re:A half-hour to learn Rust by canada_dry on Saturday February 29, 2020 @01:52PM (#22452210)

I agree. Reminded me of this quick start for pandas that got me quickly up-and-running!

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/getting_started...

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Re:A half-hour to learn Rust by webew on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:27AM (#22484515)

> This is the most useful introduction to a language I have ever read. Often language introductions produce a "Wall of Complexity" and I failed in my last two attempts learning Rust failed because of that. This is just great.

> Be warned, the "half hour" part is probably a bit like "99 cents" as a price tag. I've already spent more than that, but it is time well spent.

> Thanks for writing this!

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Re:A half-hour to learn Rust by webew on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:29AM (#22484535)

whoops, sorry.

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