🦀 Learning Rust with The Rust Programming Language

This repository documents a 32-Day Rust Learning Plan through the official book The Rust Programming Language, also known as The Book.

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🦀 32-Day Rust Learning Plan

This is a structured 32-day journey through The Rust Programming Language Book, covering all essential concepts with hands-on practice and a complete final project.

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📅 Daily Breakdown

Week 1 – Getting Started with Rust

Day	Topic
1	Chapter 1: Getting Started – Install Rust, cargo, and run your first project
2	Chapter 2: Programming a Guessing Game – Input handling, rand, loop, match
3	Hands-on: Customize the guessing game, experiment with println! and variables
4	Chapter 3.1–3.2: Variables, mutability, shadowing, scalar and compound types
5	Chapter 3.3–3.4: Functions and comments
6	Chapter 3.5–3.6: Control flow – if, loop, while, for
7	Review and practice: build small logic exercises using loops and conditions

Week 2 – Ownership, Structs, Enums, and Project Organization

Day	Topic
8	Chapter 4: Ownership – stack vs heap, ownership rules
9	Chapter 4 (continued): Borrowing and references
10	Hands-on: Create a text analysis CLI to count characters and words
11	Chapter 5: Structs and defining methods
12	Chapter 6: Enums and pattern matching
13	Hands-on: Build a command-line calculator using enums and match
14	Chapter 7: Managing projects with packages, crates, and modules

Week 3 – Collections, Errors, Generics, Testing, and CLI

Day	Topic
15	Chapter 8: Collections – Strings, Vectors, HashMaps
16	Chapter 9: Error Handling – panic!, Result, unwrap, expect
17	Hands-on: Build a simple CSV reader with error handling
18	Chapter 10: Generics – abstract over types
19	Chapter 10 (continued): Traits and lifetimes
20	Chapter 11: Writing automated tests
21	Chapter 12: CLI project – setup, env::args, and planning
22	Chapter 12 (continued): File reading, logic implementation, and testing
23	Refactor CLI project – modularize, add error handling, improve structure

Week 4 – Advanced Rust Concepts

Day	Topic
24	Chapter 13: Iterators and closures
25	Chapter 14: Cargo and crates.io in depth
26	Chapter 15: Smart pointers – Box, Rc, RefCell
27	Chapter 16: Concurrency – threads, channels, Mutex
28	Chapters 17–19: OOP in Rust, patterns, and advanced features
29	Chapter 20: Final project example – building a multithreaded web server

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🔨 Final Rust Project (Days 30–32)

Day 30 – Planning and Setup

• Choose a project type: CLI, API, parser, file watcher, etc.
• Define the scope: input, output, structure
• Create with cargo new, configure Cargo.toml
• Add crates like clap, serde, reqwest, etc.

Day 31 – Implementation and Testing

• Write the core logic and functionality
• Handle errors with Result, Option, and pattern matching
• Write unit and integration tests using cargo test

Day 32 – Refactoring and Documentation

• Organize code into modules (mod, lib.rs)
• Add documentation comments (///)
• Write a README.md with instructions and usage
• Optionally run cargo clippy, cargo fmt, and publish on GitHub

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🧠 Tips

• Use Rustlings for daily exercises.
• Take notes and save code snippets you find useful.
• Keep your project ideas small and focused.

Happy coding crustacean! 🚀

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License

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