Custom Rust

Session 1

• Rust types - primitives, struts, arrays, str, #[derive(Debug)]
• References - immutable/mutable, slices, rules for references.
• Control flow - if, match, loop, for, while.
• Implementing methods.
• Exercise: Write FizzBuzz in Rust.

Session 2

• Functions and return values
• Move semantics
• Closures
• Generic functions
• Traits and bounds.
• Exercise: Make a generic Animal trait and apply it to cats and dogs.

Session 3

• Destructuring assignments.
• If-let, if-else, while-let.
• Generic structures.
• Lifetimes.
• Exercise: Parse a command.

Session 4

• #[no-std] coding for embedded.
• Calling and being called by C code.
• Bindgen - generating interfaces to C code from headers.
• The alloc library (Box, Vec, HashMap, BTreeMap, VecDeque).
• Exercise: input a text file and sort it by alphabetical order.

Session 5

• Setting up the NRF dev board.
• Example: Hello world.
• Example: Blinky.
• Concurrency
• Synchronisation
• Exercise: Experiment with the NRF board
• Q&A, Conclusions