Learning Rust. The start.

 

                                        Learning Rust

"Learning Rust" refers to myself. It's my learning process, my inner dialouge.

For different reasons I chose to learn Rust. It's a steep learning curve, it's not like other languages I've used or come in contact with.

Since I'm not taking a course, used to be learning my skills by myself, I thought I'd do it the same way I always do, read the documentation and test things, gaining my knowledge gradually, as I went along.

This is the one time I feel I could have had some use of a course. Everything is weird. My first thought was that, maybe this is not something to recommend to those who are new to programming. On the other hand, I carry a lot of ideas in my backpack of Life, about how programming should work and maybe that's why it is so hard. Maybe people, new to programming concepts, are those who would master this language most easily. Always two sides to the coin.

Anyway, I decided to take notes of every stage on my journey in a blog post format. This will inevitably make my first post most useless, because getting my first program working, it would probably contain mistakes and misconceptions that I was not aware of at all. If I'm right in this, an eventual reader have to read post after post, gradually coming to realize, as I did, that I really didn't had a clue to what I was doing, getting the program to work.

OK, that's how things are . I write. Maybe somebody reads, who am I to know.

The Rust symbol image preceding these blog posts is the one used in the documentation when examples are shown of something that doesn't work.  I bet a Rust learner will visit a lot of those.