The Rust Programming Language

Session 1

• Recording
• Intro to Cargo by Rainer Stropek
• Guess the number game - Demo
• Homework Repository: Lotto
• Upload your main.rs file here: Google Forms

Session 2

• Recording
• 📦 thiserror
• 📦 anyhow
• 📦 error-chain
• Wrapping errors with enums
• Custom Error Handling - Demo
• Clock - Demo
• Trait - Demo
• Iterator - Demo

Session 3

• Recording
• Tokio, async Runtime
• async-std
• Multi-Threading Example

Session 3 - Homework

Pick one! Send me your main.rs file and upload it here

Option 1: Guess the number game

The task: Write a command line application where users can guess a number

• Use a random number generator to generate an integer number
• Let the user guess until they manage to get the right answer
• React gracefully on errors
• Stretch goal: Limit the number of tries based on a CLI argument
• Stretch goal: Limit the range based on a CLI argument

Option 2: Telnet chat

Take the examples on async Rust and write a telnet chat. The Tokio examples from the slides will help you.

• The chat accepts new connections on localhost (to connect with telnet localhost PORT_NUMBER) where PORT_NUMBER is up to you
• The chat gracefully drops connections once the clients end it
• Clients are able to write messages, they are distributed to all other clients
• Use channels to distribute messages
• Use async-std or tokio to fulfil your goal