Rust Book

Following the Rust Programming Language Book to learn Rust and systems programming. Contains exercises and projects organized by chapter.

Projects & Exercises

Chapter	Topic	Contents
1	Getting Started	Hello World, Hello Cargo
2	Guessing Game	Number guessing game with random number generation
3	Common Concepts	Variables, data types, functions, control flow, loops; practice projects (temperature converter, Fibonacci, 12 Days of Christmas)
4	Ownership	Ownership rules, references and borrowing
5	Structs	Defining and using structs, struct methods
6	Enums	Enums, match control flow, concise control flow (if let)
7	Crates	Module system, separating modules into files
8	Collections	Vectors, strings, hash maps; practice projects (median/mode, pig latin, employee directory)
9	Error Handling	Panic vs Result, error propagation
10	Generics	Generic types, traits, lifetimes
11	Testing	Unit tests, integration tests, test organization
12	Minigrep	CLI grep clone - searches files for text with optional case-insensitive flag
13	Iterators & Closures	Closure syntax, iterator adaptors, owning iterators
14	Workspace	Multi-crate workspace with adder/add_one/add_two
15	Smart Pointers	Box, Deref/Drop traits, Rc, RefCell, reference cycles
16	Concurrency	Threads, message passing (channels), shared state (Mutex), Sync/Send traits
17	Async	Async/await syntax and concurrency

Generates a random number between 1-100 and the player guesses until correct.

A command-line tool that searches for a query string in a file:

cargo run -- query poem.txt
cargo run -- -i query poem.txt

Navigate to any project directory and run:

cargo run

For tests:

cargo test