This is the Rust course used by the Android team at Google. It provides you the material to quickly teach Rust.
Comprehensive Rust 🦀
This repository has the source code for Comprehensive Rust 🦀, a multi-day Rust course developed by the Android team. The course covers all aspects of Rust, from basic syntax to generics and error handling. It also includes deep dives on [Android], [Chromium], [bare-metal], and [concurrency].
[Android]: https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/android.html [Chromium]: https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/chromium.html [bare-metal]: https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/bare-metal.html [concurrency]: https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/concurrency.html
Read the course at https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/.
Course Format and Target Audience
The course is used internally at Google to teach Rust to experienced software engineers, typically with a background in C++ or Java.
The course is taught in a classroom setting, and we hope it will be useful for others who want to teach Rust to their team. The course is less ideal for self-study, since you would miss out on classroom discussions. You would not see the questions and answers, nor the compiler errors we trigger when going through the code samples. We hope to improve the self-study experience via speaker notes and by publishing videos.
Press
Articles and blog posts from around the web which cover Comprehensive Rust:
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Setup
The course is built using a few tools:
- mdbook
- mdbook-svgbob
- mdbook-i18n-helpers and i18n-report
- mdbook-exerciser
- mdbook-course
- mdbook-linkcheck2
- Bazel
git clone https://github.com/google/comprehensive-rust/
cd comprehensive-rustThen run the following command to install the correct versions of all tools mentioned above:
cargo xtask install-toolsYou will find the tools in your ~/.cargo/bin/ directory afterwards.
Commands
Here are some of the commonly used commands you can run in the project. Run cargo xtask to view all available commands.
| Command | Description | | --------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | cargo xtask install-tools | Install all the tools the project depends on. | | cargo xtask serve | Start a web server with the course. You'll find the content on http://localhost:3000. To serve any of the translated versions of the course, add the language flag (--language or -l) followed by xx, where xx is the ISO 639 language code (e.g. cargo xtask serve -l da for the Danish translation). | | cargo xtask rust-tests | Test the included Rust snippets. | | cargo xtask web-tests | Run the web driver tests in the tests directory. | | cargo xtask build | Create a static version of the course in the book/ directory. Note that you have to separately build and zip exercises and add them to book/html. To build any of the translated versions of the course, add the language flag (--language or -l) followed by xx, where xx is the ISO 639 language code (e.g. cargo xtask build -l da for the Danish translation). TRANSLATIONS.md contains further instructions. |
Note On Windows, you need to enable symlinks
(git config --global core.symlinks true) and Developer Mode.
Contributing
We welcome contributions. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
License
This project is licensed under a mix of the Apache License 2.0 and the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Source Code: All source code files and code examples embedded in the
- Documentation & Content: All non-source code assets—specifically Markdown
.md) files, documentation, and images—are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Contact
For questions or comments, please contact Martin Geisler or start a discussion on GitHub. We would love to hear from you.
