Rust Training — Microsoft

Table of Contents

Part I — Foundations

1. Introduction and Motivation

2. Getting Started Essential Keywords Reference *(optional)*

3. Built-in Types and Variables True Immutability vs Record Illusions

4. Control Flow

5. Data Structures and Collections Constructor Patterns Collections — Vec, HashMap, and Iterators

6. Enums and Pattern Matching Exhaustive Matching and Null Safety

7. Ownership and Borrowing Memory Safety Deep Dive Lifetimes Deep Dive Smart Pointers — Beyond Single Ownership

8. Crates and Modules Package Management — Cargo vs NuGet

9. Error Handling Crate-Level Error Types and Result Aliases

10. Traits and Generics Generic Constraints Inheritance vs Composition

11. From and Into Traits

12. Closures and Iterators Macros Primer

Part II — Concurrency & Systems

13. Concurrency Async/Await Deep Dive

14. Unsafe Rust and FFI Testing

Part III — Migration & Best Practices

15. Migration Patterns and Case Studies Essential Crates for C# Developers Incremental Adoption Strategy

16. Best Practices Performance Comparison and Migration Learning Path and Resources Rust Tooling Ecosystem

Capstone

17. Capstone Project: Build a CLI Weather Tool