Brooks Patton
I have been working in the IT field for most of my professional career, first as a Systems Administrator at NASA Ames Research Center, as a software developer, and now I am an instructor at Galvanize.
Learn Rust
By making a CLI todo app
But First...Who Am I?
Technical Team Lead at Health Scholars
Worked in the IT industry for over 14 years
Including working at NASA as a systems administrator
Live-coding projects and fun visualizations on Twitch.tv
Objectives
- Decide if you want to lean into Rust
- Be inspired to learn and create something in Rust
What is Rust?
- General purpose programming language
- No longer billed as a systems programming language
- Strongly Typed
- Great community
- Modern tools
Why Rust?
- Fun to use*
- Capable of doing almost everything
- Possible being a big language in the future
- A great challenge
- First class citizens (testing, documentation, etc.)
The Project
Live Coding
- As a doer, I want to see all my tasks
- As a doer, I want to add a new task
- As a doer, I want to mark a task as completed
- As a doer, I want to delete a task
Resources for Learning Rust
Questions
Where to find me
- https://twitch.tv/brookzerker
- https://twitter.com/brooks_patton
- https://github.com/brookspatton
Learn Rust by Building a CLI Todo App
By Brooks Patton
Learn Rust by Building a CLI Todo App
This is the slide deck for a Rust meetup talk about learning Rust. You can watch Brooks stream live on Twitch tv, often about programming in Rust at https://www.twitch.tv/brookzerker.
