Power BI - Beyond the Basics training course

Rust Introduction

What is Rust?
Why use Rust?
Program safety using Rust

Getting Started

Development options
Installation and rustup
First Console Application
Use of tools for project creation, formatting and documentation (including Cargo,
rustfmt, clippy and rustdoc)
Use of Modules

Types and Variables

Primitive types
Variables, constants and Immutability
Strings
Arrays

Functions

Defining functions

Ownership

Introduction to Ownership
Memory (stack and heap)
References and borrowing
Slices
Memory Safety
Lifetime

User define types

Structs
Enums and matching
Defining Methods
Use of Option and Result

Flow of Control

Introduction to flow of control
If and match
Loops
For
While

Standard IO

Standard library IO
Stdin/stdout
Reading writing to File

Overview of Standard Library including

Collections (Tuples, Vec, HashSet, HashMap)

Error Handling - Panics

Introduction to Error Handling
Panics
Recoverable and non-recoverable errors

Packages Crates and Modules

Creating Crates and Modules
Partitioning Applications
Controlling Access
Private and Public

Types revisited (Generics and Traits)

Types system
Use of Generics
Generic functions
Generic Types
Traits
Implementing Traits

Iterators and Closures

Iterators and Closures
Using Closures
Rust Introduction – BBC

Concurrency

Introduction to Concurrency
Creating Threads
Message passing between threads
Shared state
Thread-safety

Miscellaneous

Smart pointers and Box

Rust Performance and Security

Taking advantage of Rust inbuild features

Libraries

Overview of available libraries

Integration with Rust

Overview of uses for Rust

Testing

Overview of creating Tests
Mocking