Rust Hacknight Projects and Exercises

Projects to do in 2-3 hours during a hack night.

Beginner exercises

Rustlings is a set of small exercises that gets you familiar with the syntax and data types of Rust:

https://github.com/carols10cents/rustlings

Beginner project: Terminal Todo List

If you would rather do a project, here's your once in a lifetime chance to build a Todo list tool in the terminal where you can add, remove and mark items as done.

terminal-todo

Medium level exercises

Exercism.io has a number of exercises of varying difficulty:

http://exercism.io/languages/rust/exercises

A few suggestions here: http://exercism.io/exercises/rust/beer-song/readme http://exercism.io/exercises/rust/bowling/readme

Medium level project

Build something fun with Rocket, the fast and friendly web framework.

Maybe continue on the Note taker and build a web app out of it?

Proper error handling on routes with 404 if a note is not found?
Explore the excellent Rocket templating model to build something pretty?

It is recommended to have a decent familiarity with Rust itself, as learning enough of the ins and outs of a framework to build something can be hard enough in 2 hours.

Resources

Official docs: https://rocket.rs/guide/

Tutorial: Build a pastebin: https://rocket.rs/guide/pastebin/

Tutorial: Build a shitty blog: https://github.com/sgrif/shitty-blog