Rust Beginner Learning Timetable
Overview
This timetable is designed to help beginners learn Rust effectively by dedicating 4 hours daily—2 hours for studying concepts and 2 hours for hands-on coding.
Notes:
- If you have prior programming experience, follow the weekly and daily schedule.
- If you are a total beginner, use the monthly and weekly version for a smoother learning curve.
Learning Schedule
| Month/Week | Day(s)/weeks | Topic | Activity/Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Month/Week 1: Rust Basics | |||
| 1-2 | Install Rust (rustup, Cargo), Basic syntax |
Write "Hello, World!" program | |
| 3-4 | Ownership, Borrowing, Lifetimes | Practice with variables, structs, and enums | |
| Special Focus: Study memory management from a computer science perspective | |||
| 5-6 | Control Flow (if, match, loops), Error Handling (Result, Option) |
Solve small coding challenges | |
| 7 | Mini-project: CLI Calculator | Implement a simple arithmetic calculator | |
| Month/Week 2: Intermediate Rust | |||
| 8-9 | Structs, Enums, Pattern Matching | Hands-on exercises | |
| 10-11 | Vectors, HashMaps, Strings, Slices | Build a basic data processor | |
| 12-13 | Modules, Crates, File I/O | Work with external libraries (serde, rand) |
|
| 14 | Mini-project: CLI To-Do List | Create a simple CRUD CLI app | |
| Month/Week 3: Advanced Rust | |||
| 15-16 | Traits, Generics, Lifetimes | Implement custom traits | |
| 17-18 | Smart Pointers (Box, Rc, Arc), Interior Mutability |
Manage heap memory efficiently | |
| 19-20 | Concurrency (Threads, tokio) |
Write a concurrent counter or build a TCP-based project | |
| 21 | Mini-project: Web Scraper | Fetch and parse data from websites | |
| Month/Week 4: Real-World Applications | |||
| 22-23 | Web Development with actix-web or axum
|
Build a basic CRUD API | |
| 24-25 | Blockchain (Substrate, Bitcoin Rust libraries) | Explore Rust’s role in blockchain development | |
| 26-27 | Testing (cargo test, clippy), Debugging |
Optimize and refactor previous projects | |
| 28 | Final Project | Build a REST API or CLI Tool as a capstone project |
Following this structured plan ensures a smooth transition from Rust fundamentals to real-world applications. By the end of this journey, you will have a solid foundation in Rust and be ready to build production-grade projects.
Happy Coding! 🚀
