Rust Fundamentals Training

Build a solid foundation in Rust with this comprehensive 3-day training. Learn the concepts that make Rust unique -- ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes -- alongside practical skills in pattern matching, error handling, and building real applications with cargo. This course uses compiler-driven development to help you internalize Rust's approach to memory safety and correctness.

Training Details

Duration	3 days (24 hours)
Level	Beginner
Delivery	In-person, Live online, Hybrid
Certification	N/A

Who Is This For?

• Developers from C, C++, Python, Java, or Go looking to learn Rust
• Backend engineers exploring memory-safe systems programming
• Team leads evaluating Rust for production workloads
• Open source contributors wanting to participate in Rust projects
• Anyone curious about modern systems programming

Learning Outcomes

After completing this training, participants will be able to:

• Write idiomatic Rust code using ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes
• Design data structures with structs, enums, and pattern matching
• Handle errors gracefully with Result and Option types
• Use traits and generics to write reusable, polymorphic code
• Build, test, and manage projects with cargo and crates.io
• Read and fix common Rust compiler errors confidently

Detailed Agenda

Day 1: Language Foundations and Ownership

Module 1: Getting Started with Rust

• Rust philosophy and design goals
• Installing Rust with rustup
• Cargo project structure and dependencies
• Hands-on: Create and run your first Rust project

Module 2: Variables, Types, and Control Flow

• Scalar and compound types
• Mutability and shadowing
• Control flow with if, loop, while, and for
• Hands-on: Build a command-line calculator

Module 3: Ownership and Borrowing

• The ownership model and move semantics
• Borrowing with references (shared and mutable)
• The borrow checker and common patterns
• Hands-on: Refactor code to satisfy the borrow checker

Module 4: Slices and Strings

• String vs &str and when to use each
• Slice types and borrowing from collections
• UTF-8 and string manipulation
• Hands-on: Build a text processing utility

Day 2: Data Modeling and Error Handling

Module 5: Structs and Methods

• Defining structs and tuple structs
• Implementing methods with impl blocks
• Associated functions and constructors
• Hands-on: Model a domain with structs

Module 6: Enums and Pattern Matching

• Enum variants with data
• Pattern matching with match and if let
• Option and Result types
• Hands-on: Build a state machine with enums

Module 7: Error Handling

• Recoverable vs unrecoverable errors
• The ? operator and error propagation
• Custom error types
• Hands-on: Add robust error handling to an application

Module 8: Collections

• Vec, HashMap, and HashSet
• Iterators and iterator adaptors
• Closures and functional patterns
• Hands-on: Build a word frequency counter

Day 3: Traits, Generics, and Real-World Rust

Module 9: Traits and Generics

• Defining and implementing traits
• Trait bounds and where clauses
• Generic functions and structs
• Hands-on: Build a generic data pipeline

Module 10: Lifetimes

• Lifetime annotations and elision rules
• Lifetimes in structs and functions
• Static lifetime and string literals
• Hands-on: Fix lifetime errors in real code

Module 11: Modules and Crates

• Module system and visibility
• Organizing code with files and directories
• Publishing to crates.io
• Hands-on: Structure a multi-module project

Module 12: Testing and Tooling

• Unit tests and integration tests
• Documentation tests
• Clippy, rustfmt, and rust-analyzer
• Hands-on: Add tests and CI to your project

Prerequisites

• Programming experience in at least one language
• Familiarity with command line basics
• No prior Rust experience required

Delivery Formats

Format	Description
In-Person	On-site at your company's location, hands-on with direct interaction
Live Online	Interactive virtual sessions with screen sharing and real-time labs
Hybrid	Combination of on-site and remote sessions, flexible scheduling

All formats include hands-on labs, course materials, and post-training support.