Rust Crash Course Tutorial for Solana

A quick crash course covering 21 high level topics on Rust for those with some programming experience that are interested in getting started on Solana.

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00:00 - Intro
00:23 - What is Rust
00:58 - Install tools (Rust, VSCode, Rust Extension)
02:06 - 1) Build Rust Code
04:11 - 2) Using Cargo to build Rust application
06:30 - 3) Printing to the console
08:03 - 4) Scalar variable types (primative variables)
12:06 - 5) Arrays
14:03 - 6) Tuples
15:34 - 7) Functions
17:35 - 8) Mutability
19:09 - 9) Arrays and slices
23:21 - 10) Strings
27:55 - 11) If Statements
28:45 - 12) For Loops
29:34 - 13) While Loops
30:52 - 14) Match Statements (switch statements)
32:16 - 15) Creating Structs (Classes)
35:39 - 16) Traits (Interfaces)
37:49 - 17) Enums
40:24 - 18) Vectors (dynamic arrays)
42:21 - 19) Hash Maps
45:36 - 20) Options
48:11 - 21) Results
51:47 - Conclusion

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[YoshiMan]

best video for those who has past programming experience too, you're a legend

Brilliant, perfect intro to rust to get started in less than 1h, thanks

[andydataguy]

Newbie dev here. Thanks for making this intro video was super useful!

[jonathanmoore]

A lot of people hating on rust at the moment. Thks for your efforts.

[CYBERENA]

Thanks man... most helpful crash course to Rust on the internet! I will recommend you to everyone...

[debeshmandal]

Great video for people familiar with other programming languages to get up to speed quickly!

[deathdefier]

Thank you so much for this series, I was looking for one for the longest time!

[mikeylikesit]

Such a great, succinct tutorial. Excellent job!

[ilkandi]

You tied all the examples together well. Ready to move on. Thank you!

[zero_Ash]

Thanks for the video. I wanted to get a quick overview before getting into solana. And this is exactly what I wanted.

[BodrumDrone]

Greetings from Bodrum Turkey. This video clearly 🦀

[calv.io.n]

hey leet dev you rock man! i'll sub. You boost me along quickly through the language and get me up and running fast!!

[cdhiraj]

Hey, great video. Keep them coming, I am starting my solana development with you :)

[kiaraki]

26:59, why is it that str.push('1') doest thow an error but string.push() does
thank you

[chadwittman]

Thanks for assuming I'm not an idiot.(even thou that up for debate) I like how you compared things to other languages to give a quick run down

[gouravsinghrawat]

" *THE LAST BIT* " vs " _even or odd_ "

[drac]

Hi thanks for creating this video it really helps me understand rust even though i haven't code in rust at all (have experience in coding python)

One question can we expect solana videos as well like from staring (i just have started to look into solana and smart contract stuff)

And if we are getting solana videos
Could you. Please start with something like building a bolg site or something easy

Not to just at creating NFT in solana i watched those videos in YouTube but honestly didn't understand anything


Thanks. 😊😊😀

[temzeks]

Are there any alternatives for a javascript developer to develop on solana with js instead of rust?

[kanishkmair]

At 10:25 the negative integers must have their numbers flipped, right? Like -3 should be 1100

[markobe]

is there any Solana crash restart tutorial?😆