LibGuides: Rust for the Humanities: Documentation and Tutorials

Documentation

Reading through the documentation and official tutorials for a programming language can be one of the best ways to understand how it works, and how it might be used in your own applications. The links below will help you get started.

Official Rust Documentation
An overview of the documentation provided by the Rust project . This page contains links to various helpful references, most of which are available offline (if opened with rustup doc). Many of these resources take the form of “books,” referred to collectively here as “The Rust Bookshelf.”
Documentation Section of The Rust Programming Language
The section on documentation from the book The Rust Programming Language, providing a helpful overview of the tooling Rust gives you to document your project.

Tutorials

Learn Rust
This amazing resource offers three great learning methods to choose from: reading The Rust Programming Language (known as "the book"); following the Rustlings course; or reading the Rust by Example book (which also includes exercises). All of these resources are free!
A Gentle Introduction to Rust
This tutorial aims to take you to a place where you can read and write enough Rust to fully appreciate the excellent learning resources available online, in particular "the book." It's an opportunity to try before you buy, and get enough feeling for the power of the language to want to go deeper.

How to Read Documentation

Reading Documentation: A Practical Approach for Beginners
Learning to read documentation is an important skill, but one that takes time and experience. This post from the CUNY walks through some strategies to help people new to reading documentation.

Rust Workshop Recording

Introduction to Coding in Rust
A recording of my workshop on Rust, which served as a general introduction to using the Rust programming language with a focus on how it can be applied to the digital humanities. Includes both a lecture and walkthrough of simple, introductory code examples.