By completing this course, learners will:

• Understand Rust syntax, ownership, and memory safety model.

• Write efficient concurrent programs using threads and async/await.

• Master pattern matching, generics, traits, and macros.

• Build command-line applications and REST APIs with Rust frameworks.

• Implement unit testing and benchmarking for robust software.

• Deploy Rust applications in production environments.

Course Syllabus

Module 1: Introduction to Rust

• Why Rust? Safety & Performance

• Setting up Rust and Cargo

• Your first Rust program

Module 2: Core Concepts

• Variables, mutability, constants

• Ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes

• Memory safety without a garbage collector

Module 3: Data Structures & Control Flow

• Structs, Enums, and Pattern Matching

• Collections: Vectors, HashMaps, Strings

• Flow control and error handling

Module 4: Functions, Traits, and Generics

• Functions and closures

• Traits and generics

• Modules and visibility

Module 5: Concurrency in Rust

• Threads and message passing

• Shared state concurrency

• Async/await programming

Module 6: Advanced Rust Concepts

• Smart pointers (Box, Rc, Arc, RefCell)

• Unsafe Rust

• Macros

Module 7: Building Applications (Projects)

• Command-line to-do app

• REST API with Actix or Rocket

• Multithreaded file downloader

Module 8: Testing, Debugging, and Performance

• Unit testing and integration testing

• Error handling best practices

• Benchmarking and profiling

Module 9: Packaging and Deployment

• Cargo workspace and crates.io

• Publishing libraries

• Deploying Rust applications

Module 10: Real-World Rust Projects

• Blockchain basics with Rust

• WebAssembly (WASM) with Rust

• Embedded programming examples

Upon completion, learners receive a Certificate of Completion from Uplatz, validating their skills in Rust programming, concurrency, systems programming, and application development. This certificate boosts credibility for job applications in backend engineering, blockchain development, systems programming, and embedded development.

Learning Rust prepares you for roles such as:

• Rust Developer

• Systems Programmer

• Backend Engineer (Rust/Actix)

• Blockchain Developer (Solana, Polkadot)

• Embedded Software Engineer

Rust developers are highly in demand in industries like blockchain, IoT, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure.

1. What makes Rust different from languages like C++?
   Rust provides memory safety without garbage collection through ownership and borrowing rules, reducing bugs like null pointer dereferencing and data races.

2. Explain the concept of ownership in Rust.
   Ownership ensures each value has a single owner. When ownership is transferred (moved), the previous variable becomes invalid, preventing memory errors.

3. What are lifetimes in Rust?
   Lifetimes define the scope during which a reference is valid. They prevent dangling references at compile time.

4. How does Rust handle concurrency?
   Rust uses ownership and borrowing rules to ensure data race freedom. It supports threads, message passing, and async/await for concurrency.

5. What are Traits in Rust?
   Traits define shared behavior (like interfaces). They allow for polymorphism in Rust without traditional inheritance.

6. What is Cargo in Rust?
   Cargo is Rust’s build system and package manager. It manages dependencies, builds projects, runs tests, and publishes crates.

7. How is error handling done in Rust?
   Rust avoids exceptions. Instead, it uses the Result<T, E> and Option<T> enums to handle recoverable and non-recoverable errors safely.

8. What is the difference between Box, Rc, and Arc?

• Box → heap allocation with single ownership.

• Rc → reference counting for single-threaded shared ownership.

• Arc → atomic reference counting for multi-threaded shared ownership.

9. How can Rust be used in web development?
   Rust has frameworks like Actix Web, Rocket, and Axum for building high-performance web backends. It can also compile to WASM for frontend apps.

10. Where is Rust commonly used?
    Rust is widely used in system programming, blockchain (Solana, Polkadot), web development, game engines, operating systems, and cloud-native tools.