Beginning Rust Programming - Paperback

by Ric Messier (Author)

Quickly learn the ropes with the Rust programming language using this practical, step-by-step guide

In Beginning Rust Programming, accomplished programmer and author Ric Messier delivers a highly practical, real-world guide to coding with Rust. Avoiding dry, theoretical content and "Hello, world"-type tutorials of questionable utility, the book dives immediately into functional Rust programming that takes advantage of the language's blazing speed and memory efficiency.

Designed from the ground up to give you a running start to using the multiparadigm system programming language, this book will teach you to:

• Solve real-world computer science problems of practical importance
• Use Rust's rich type system and ownership model to guarantee memory-safety and thread-safety
• Integrate Rust with other programming languages and use it for embedded devices

Perfect for programmers with some experience in other languages, like C or C++, Beginning Rust Programming is also a great pick for students new to programming and seeking a user-friendly and robust language with which to start their coding career.

Front Jacket

A practical guide for quickly getting started with the Rust programming language

Ric Messier delivers a concise step-by-step guide to the essentials of the Rust programming language. The book is designed to allow the reader to begin programming useful tools almost immediately. It takes a practical approach to teaching Rust by showing the language in the context of similar programming languages.

Eschewing a dry and theoretical approach, the book helps you jump right into the language with interesting programs drawn from classic computer science problems. You'll discover how to make the most use of Rust's efficiency and performance without encountering the errors and crashes you might experience in other common languages like C and C++.

The book covers the language's fundamentals, including language syntax, data types and structures, and other features and techniques for developing programs. It discusses Rust's rich type system and ownership model that helps you guarantee memorysafety and thread-safety, eliminating many classes of bugs at compile-time.

This practical and instructive book teaches you:

• To take advantage of Rust's blazing speed and memory-efficiency
• To use the language for embedded devices and how to integrate it with other languages
• Skip the "Hello, world" shenanigans and skip right to practical programming techniques you can put to use immediately

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that guides you through all the techniques involved.

Author Biography

About the Author

Ric Messier is Senior Information Security Consultant with FireEye Mandiant. He is an author, consultant, and educator who holds GCIH, GSEC, CEH, and CISSP certifications and has published several books on information security and digital forensics. He is familiar with a wide variety of languages, including BASIC, Pascal, C, C++, C#, Rexx, Perl, Python, Java, Go, Swift, and Objective-C.

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