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Contribute to open source
Read real codebases, learn idioms, and find your first meaningful PR.
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First Week Plan
A structured first week: read, practice, and join the community.
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Read chapters 1–4 of The Rust Book
Covers installation, guessing game, common concepts, and ownership basics.
- 2
Hands-on drills that reinforce each chapter concept.
- 3
Keep the cheat sheet open while coding — you'll reference it constantly.
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Ask questions on users.rust-lang.org or the official Discord.
Learning path
Job Ready
Go from competent to hireable — idiomatic Rust, production patterns, and deep dives.
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Programming Rust (2nd Edition)
O'Reilly's deep dive into Rust — systems programming, concurrency, and the type system.
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For developers who know the basics and want to write idiomatic, production Rust.
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Deep-dive videos on Rust internals, async, and advanced language features. Start with Crust of Rust.
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Jon Gjengset's legendary series on smart pointers, async, lifetimes, and other intermediate Rust topics.
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Community wiki covering patterns, crates, and ecosystem gotchas.
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Blazingly fast line-oriented search tool — exemplary Rust systems code to read.