Overview of all stages

Stage 1: The Basics

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 The Rust Playground
• 1.3 Variables
• 1.4 Changing Variables
• 1.5 Basic Types
• 1.6 Basic Type Conversion
• 1.7 Constants
• 1.8 Arrays
• 1.9 Functions
• 1.10 Multiple Return Values
• 1.11 Returning Nothing
• 1.12 Macros
• 1.13 Compiler Messages
• 1.14 Summary

Stage 2: Rust installation and local development

• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Installation
• 2.3 rustup
• 2.4 cargo
• 2.5 Managing Dependencies With cargo
• 2.6 cargo Subcommands
• 2.7 Setup Visual Studio Code
• 2.8 Writing A Hello World Program
• 2.9 Reading Command Line Arguments
• 2.10 How to test functions
• 2.11 Summary

Stage 3: Basic Control Flow

• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 if / else
• 3.3 loop
• 3.4 Returning Values From loop
• 3.5 while
• 3.6 for
• 3.7 match
• 3.8 Returning Values From Block Expressions
• 3.9 Summary

Stage 4: Basic Data Structure Types

• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Structures
• 4.3 Calling Methods
• 4.4 Memory
• 4.5 Creating Data In Memory
• 4.6 Tuple-like Structs
• 4.7 Unit-like Structs
• 4.8 Enums
• 4.9 Enums With Data
• 4.10 Summary

Stage 5: Generic Types

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 What Are Generic Types
• 5.3 Representing Nothing
• 5.4 Option
• 5.5 Result
• 5.6 Failable Main
• 5.7 Error Handling
• 5.8 Ugly Option / Result Handling
• 5.9 Vectors
• 5.10 Summary

Stage 6: Ownership & Borrowing Data

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Ownership
• 6.3 Scope-based Resource Management
• 6.4 Dropping Is Hierarchical
• 6.5 Moving Ownership
• 6.6 Returning Ownership
• 6.7 Borrowing Ownership With References
• 6.8 Borrowing Mutable Ownership With References
• 6.9 Dereferencing
• 6.10 Passing Around Borrowed Data
• 6.11 References Of References
• 6.12 Explicit Lifetimes
• 6.13 Multiple Lifetimes
• 6.14 Static Lifetimes
• 6.15 Lifetimes In Data Types
• 6.16 Summary

Stage 7: Text

• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 String Literals
• 7.3 What Is UTF-8?
• 7.4 Escaping Characters
• 7.5 Multi-line String Literals
• 7.6 Raw String Literals
• 7.7 String Literals From Files
• 7.8 String Slice
• 7.9 Chars
• 7.10 String
• 7.11 Text As Function Parameters
• 7.12 Building Strings
• 7.13 Formatting Strings
• 7.14 Converting Strings
• 7.15 Useful String Methods
• 7.16 Regular Expressions
• 7.17 Summary

Stage 8: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 What Is Object Oriented Programming (OOP)?
• 8.3 Rust Is Not OOP
• 8.4 Encapsulation With Methods
• 8.5 Abstraction With Selective Exposure
• 8.6 Polymorphism With Traits
• 8.7 Implemented Methods On Traits
• 8.8 Trait Inheritance
• 8.9 Dynamic vs Static Dispatch
• 8.10 Trait Objects
• 8.11 Handling Unsized Data
• 8.12 Generic Functions
• 8.13 Generic Functions Shorthand
• 8.14 Box
• 8.15 Generic Structs Revisited
• 8.16 Summary

Stage 9: Smart Pointers

• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 References Revisited
• 9.3 Raw Pointers
• 9.4 Dereferencing Revisited
• 9.5 The Dereference Operator *
• 9.6 The Dot Operator .
• 9.7 Smart Pointers
• 9.8 Smart Unsafe Code
• 9.9 Familiar Friends
• 9.10 Heap Allocated Memory
• 9.11 Failable Main Revisted
• 9.12 Referencing Counting
• 9.13 Sharing Access
• 9.14 Sharing Across Threads
• 9.15 Combining Smart Pointers
• 9.16 Summary

Stage 10: Project Organization and Stucture

• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.2 Modules
• 10.3 Writing A Program
• 10.4 Writing A Library
• 10.5 Referencing Other Modules And Crates
• 10.6 Referencing Multiple Items
• 10.7 Creating Modules
• 10.8 Module Hierarchy
• 10.9 Inline Modules
• 10.10 Internal Module Referencing
• 10.11 Exporting
• 10.12 struct Visibility
• 10.13 Prelude
• 10.14 Your Own Prelude
• 10.15 Cargo.toml File
• 10.16 Rust Editions
• 10.17 Summary

Stage 11: Advanced Rust (TODO)