Learning

I have been struggling to get focused and learn more about the rust language. I would like to be ready when async .await lands on stable rust a few weeks time. So I have decided to write a micro blog series about my experience with learning rust for a 100 days. It won’t come without its own challenges, biggest being lack of time due to life commitments, and lack of focus and perseverance. It is almost at the end of sailing summer season (I sail twice a week) and it would be nice to have something new and challenging to do while I eagerly wait for next year sailing to start. ...

Problem set translation form C to rust. I’m using the code I had from 2014 and implementing rust equivalent as a learning exercises. the firs C program is very simple classic ‘Hello World’ followed by rust ‘hello world’. The example below that is about parsing command line user input and printing a pyramid based on that input. Although I can think of many ways to improve the code and user interaction but I chose to just copy exactly the same functionality for new rust code. ...

Few years back I took CS50 certificate course form Harvard University, that sparked my interest in compiled programming languages. The course mainly used C Language to teach many programming concepts. The course is available here if you are interested CS50’s Introduction to Computer Science . Recently I have started learning rust programming language. ...