The Complete Rust Course: From Beginner to Advanced

Welcome to the most complete Rust course on Udemy! in this course we will start with the basics of Rust and cover all Rust advanced topics including multi-threading and web development.

This course is also very practical and not a theoretical course, after each section you will apply what you have learnt by solving a quiz and also working on a real world project that covers the topics you learnt during the section.

By the end of this course, you'll be ready to start professionally working with Rust to build production-grade command-line and web apps.

Topics covered in the course:

• Rust Basics

• Ownership in Rust

• Structs

• Enums

• Smart Pointers

• Modules and Crates

• Collections

• Error Handling

• Lifetimes

• Concurrency and Multi-threading

• Web Development in Rust using Rocket

Hands-on practice is the core of this course. You’ll build:

• Grade Calculator (Fundamentals)

• Contacts Book (Structs & Ownership)

• Task Manager CLI (Enums, Traits, HashMaps, Modules, Error Handling)

• Sensors Dashboard

• Pastebin APIs

These projects are designed to solidify each Rust concept and give you usable tools for your portfolio.

Who This Course Is For

• Absolute beginners to Rust or systems programming

• Developers coming from C++, Python, Go, or JavaScript

• Anyone interested in learning memory-safe, performant application design

• Students or engineers preparing for low-level or backend engineering roles

Tools You’ll Use

• Rust and Cargo

• VSCode or any text editor

• CLI-based development (great for real-world applications)

By the End of This Course you’ll be able to:

• Understand and apply ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes

• Use structs, enums, and traits effectively

• Handle errors gracefully with Option and Result

• Work with modules, crates, and collections

• Publish crates

• Understand concurrency and multi-threading in Rust

• Build web apps using Rocket and Rust

• Build, test, and structure full Rust applications

Course Content in more Details:

Introduction

• Introduction to the Course

• What is Rust?

• Installing Rust

• Installing VSCode

• Creating our First Application

• Course Source Code Repository

Rust Basics

• Variables

• Constants

• Data Types

• Arrays

• Tuples

• Operations in Rust

• Introduction to Strings

• Functions

• Another Way to Return Values

• Comments

• If Statements

• Loops

• Handling User Input

• Vectors

• Macros

• Shadowing

• Type Aliases

• Project: Grade Calculator

• Quiz: Basics

Ownership in Rust

• Understanding the Ownership Concept, the Stack and the Heap

• Rust Ownership Concept

• Introduction to Ownership

• Copy Types

• References and Borrowing

• Copying and Dereferencing

• Mutable Dereferencing

• Shared Ownership using "Rc" and "Arc"

• Quiz: Ownership

Structs

• Introduction to Structs

• Tuple Structs

• Field Shorthand Syntax

• Implementing Methods

• Associated Functions (Constructors)

• Traits

• Project: Contacts Book

• Quiz: Structs

Enums

• Introduction to Enums

• Enums with Data

• Enums and Methods

• Quiz: Enums

Smart Pointers

• Introduction to Smart Pointers

• The Box Type

• Using Boxes with Recursive Data and the Cons Pattern

• Shared Ownership using "Rc" and "Arc"

Modules and Crates

• Introduction to Modules and Crates

• Creating a Package

• Creating Modules

• Creating Crates

• the "use" Keyword

• "pub" Keyword and Visibility

• "mod" vs "use"

• Using External Crates

• Using Modules without "mod"

• Publishing Crates

• Quiz: Modules and Crates

Collections

• Strings

• Introduction to Hash Maps

• Hash Maps

• Iterators

• The Slice Type

• Ownership and Borrowing with Collections

• Quiz: Collections

Error Handling

• Panic

• The Option Enum

• The Result Enum

• Pattern Matching with "if let"

• Error Propagation using '?'

• Project: CLI Task Manager

• Custom Error Types

• Quiz: Error Handling

Lifetimes

• Introduction to Lifetimes

• Structs with Lifetimes

• Lifetime Elision Rules

• Practical Use Case Example

• Quiz: Lifetimes

Concurrency and Multi-threading

• Introduction to Concurrency

• Threads

• Channels

• Mutexes and Arc

• Project: Sensors Dashboard

• Quiz: Concurrency

Files

• Reading and Writing Files

• Opening Files with Options

• Buffering for Large Files

• Directories

• Project: Logs Analyzer

Asynchronous Rust

• Futures and Asynchronous Programming

• Using "tokio"

• HTTP Requests with "tokio" and "reqwest"

Testing and Documentation

• Test Functions

• assert_eq! and assert_ne! Macros

• assert! Macro

• Testing Panics

Web Development with Rocket

• Introduction to Rocket

• Hello World!

• Rocket's Routing System

• Handling Post Requests and Errors

• Database Integration

Enroll now and take your first step into systems programming with Rust!