RustConf 2017 - A Tale of Teaching Rust by Andrew Brinker
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A Tale of Teaching Rust by Andrew Brinker
Rust has a reputation of having a very steep learning curve, but is this reputation justified? In this talk I share my experiences teaching Rust to a group of 26 undergraduates as part of a class on programming language theory. None of the students knew Rust going in. Most knew only one language. I walk through the key concepts from Rust that programmers in all languages can use, and that language designers may want to steal, and I talk about how this class of fle