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Rust Programming Tutorial

Welcome to the Rust Programming Tutorial! 🚀
This repository contains examples and notes organized by chapters to help you learn Rust step-by-step, starting from primitive data types to complex collections and error handling.

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📚 Chapters Overview

Chapter 1: Primitive Data Types

Understand the basic data types that Rust uses to handle:

• Numbers (integers, floating-points)
• Booleans
• Characters

Chapter 2: Compound Data Types

Explore complex data structures:

• Tuples — group multiple values of different types.
• Arrays — fixed-size collections of elements of the same type.

Chapter 3: Functions

Learn how to define and use functions, and understand Rust's approach to:

• Code organization
• Code reuse

Chapter 4: Ownership

Dive into Rust's unique memory management system:

• Manage resources safely without a garbage collector.
• Understand how ownership works.

Chapter 5: Borrowing and References

Expand on memory safety:

• Create references to variables without taking ownership.
• Understand mutable and immutable borrowing.

Chapter 6: Variables and Mutability

Discover how Rust handles:

• Immutable variables (by default)
• Mutability when needed

Chapter 7: Constants

Work with constants:

• Immutable by default
• Never mutable after being set
• Used for safe, fixed values

Chapter 8: Shadowing

Enhance flexibility in variable handling:

• Redefine a variable with the same name.
• Understand how shadowing differs from mutability.

Chapter 9: Comments

Master the art of documentation:

• Write clear and useful comments.
• Help future readers (and yourself) understand the code better.

Chapter 10: Introduction to Control Flow

Learn decision-making in Rust using:

• if
• else if
• else statements

Chapter 11: Looping Mechanisms

Explore the three looping constructs:

• loop — runs indefinitely until stopped.
• while — runs while a condition holds true.
• for — iterates over ranges, arrays, and collections efficiently.

Chapter 12: Defining Structs

Create your own complex types:

• Bundle related data into structs.
• Learn about immutability in structured data.

Chapter 13: Introduction to Enums

Work with enums:

• Define a type by enumerating its possible values (variants).
• Handle related types safely and cleanly.

Chapter 14: Error Handling Techniques

Understand Rust’s safe error-handling philosophy:

• Use Result and Option types to manage errors and absence of values predictably.

Chapter 15: Collection Types

Manage groups of data efficiently using:

• Vectors — dynamic arrays.
• Strings — flexible, UTF-8 encoded text storage.
• HashMaps — key-value pair storage for fast lookup.

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🛠 How to Use This Repository

Each chapter folder contains:

• Code examples
• Notes and explanations
• Practice problems (in some chapters)

You can navigate through the chapters sequentially or jump directly to the topic you want to learn.

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✨ Getting Started

If you are new to Rust:

1. Install Rust from https://rustup.rs/
2. Use cargo run to run examples after navigating to a project folder.

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📢 Contribution

Feel free to fork, modify, or suggest improvements!
Let's build a great resource for learning Rust together.

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📄 License

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.

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