Rust Path for Beginners

What are the important concepts that a beginner must know to start learning Rust?

Author

Bilal Khan
January 17, 2025

For absolute beginners, learning a new programming language is much more complicated compared to an experienced developer who is just switching to another language.

Many beginners are not even aware of the concepts that they need to learn to have an initial grip on that language.

The syntax and the initial understanding of a language are really important for beginners and there are a few options for them to learn.

  • Documentation

  • YouTube videos

  • Paid Courses

  • Books

  • Blogs

Challenges in them

There are some challenges that beginners face while learning from those resources. Some of them are:

  • The resource wordings are hard for them to understand.

  • The resource is lengthy and a beginner does not know the ending so he can start working on projects.

  • Many of the important lessons are not covered in video tutorials and you don’t know which one is important and commonly used.

  • Spending money on courses does not guarantee that a particular course is suitable for you and your personality.

  • Although books provide you with a path but still you have to consume much because they’re linked.

  • Blogs cover only the specific concepts without giving you the whole path.

What do you need?

Based on my experience, in the initial stage, you need:

  • A path about the important concepts of the programming language.

  • Keep those concepts limited initially so that you can start focusing on the execution as soon as possible.

Important Concepts of Rust

While learning Rust, I think these are the most important concepts that you need to learn before starting execution.

You don't need to go into the details of each of them but just understand the concepts and start executing them as soon as possible.

Here are the concepts:

Intro to Rust

Print Statement

Data Types

Variables

Data Type Conversion

Constants

Function

Return Values

Variable-Binding

Defining String

Operators

Array

Slice

If Statement

If-else Statement

Let / If Statement

Loop / Break Statement

For Loop

While Loop

Tuple

Match

Struct

Enum

Ownership

Reference

Module

Nested Module

Mod & Use

Private Function

Super

Self

Method

Trait

Drop Method

Closure

Vector

Range

Generics

Assertion

Even if you don’t have any of the above resources available, you can still ask ChatGPT to teach you those concepts and give you small project ideas to work on.

What’s next?

If you want to learn Rust then I have a YouTube playlist “Rust for Beginners“ where I have covered all of the above concepts in a simple way for you to understand.

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