30-Day Rust Learning Guide: Days 1 - 3

Manny — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 02:41:08 +0000

Welcome to Days 1 -3 of the 30-day Rust learning guide!
This byte-size study plan will take you from a beginner to a not beginner in Rust.

Each day is designed to cover specific topics, provide tasks and goals, offer relevant resources, and include videos to support your learning journey in small chunks.

Let's get started!

Day 1-3: Introduction to Rust 🌱

Topics: Introduction 🌟, Installation 💻, Hello World ✨, Variables and Mutability 🔄, Data Types 🔢
Goals: Understand the basics of Rust and write your first Rust program.
Tasks:
- Install Rust 📥
- Write a "Hello, World!" program ✍️
- Experiment with variables and data types 💡
Questions:
- What is Rust and why is it used?
- How do you declare and mutate variables in Rust?
- What are the basic data types in Rust?
Outcomes: By the end of day 3, you should be comfortable with the basics of Rust and be able to write simple programs.
Resources:
- The Rust Programming Language Book - Chapters 1-3 📚
- Rust by Example - Hello World 📚
Videos:
- Rust Tutorial #1 - Introduction To Rust Programming by Tech With Tim (Duration: 15:09) 🎥
- Rust for the impatient by No Boilerplate (Duration: 10:43) 🎥

An opinionated checklist on how to (re)start your presence on the Web as a (non)developer

Manny — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 21:33:33 +0000

TLDR; I wanted to restart my presence on the web with a new handle and establish foundations for discover-ability, this is a list of what I did.url

Start a new Twitter Account
Create a new GitHub/GitLab Account
Create a new dev.to Account
Generate a new landing page via Vercel

Why?

I wanted to start fresh.

I wanted to be able to have a space and accounts that are unified under a common similar handle.
I wanted to be able to share/link this to my LinkedIn profule and establish a presence that could point to the "me" that is seen in professional settings.

I wanted to differentiate my presence on social platforms that was created at a different era/time in my life.

My other Twitter account was noisy and not curated or focused on software development entirely and with that came this mix.

I wanted less noise.

How?

Start a new `Twitter` Account

I registered a domain, typingona.computer, that is able to receive email and so I created a new Twitter account (@mannyistyping) associated with that email address that would overlap across multiple platforms.

Create a new `GitHub`/`GitLab` Account

I went to both GitHub and GitLab and created an account using a similar username.

This provides a clean slate to start projects and also make decisions on how I want to organize them.

At the moment I am considering using a monorepo that would encompass all related projects.

Create a new `dev.to` Account

Here we are! I am writing this on the new account to document my work and also provide a space to capture my thoughts, ideas, etc.

I am also looking at forem and considering registering for that as well. (I have never used forem and so I am unsure as how to use it!)

Generate a new landing page via Vercel

Using the newly created GitHub account, I went and registered for Vercel's personal account using the Next.js Blog Template.

http://mannyis.typingona.computer

And there we are!
The beginning to establishing a new Web presence on the internet.

What I plan to do next after writing this initial post on dev.to is to start working on http://mannyis.typingona.computer so that I can either automate posts here to land there or posts there to land here.

#developer #newbeginnings #webpresence #startingover #devlife

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