course_intro.md

Rust crash course

What you will learn

• Basic to intermediate Rust
• Ownership and borrowing rules
• Async / await programming

Topics not covered

• Closures
• Smart pointers
• Concurrency
  • Threads
  • Channels
  • Mutexes

Why should you take this course?

• Write and audit Rust based smart contracts
  • Solana
  • Arbitrum Stylus

Prerequisites

• Basic programming concepts
  • Variables, functions, hash maps, etc...
  • Python, JS, C, Java, etc..
• Command line basics
  • Linux
• Using IDE
  • VSCode