Learning Rust with a little help from AI

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Learning a new programming language can help broaden your software development expertise, open career opportunities, or create fun challenges. However, it can be difficult to decide on one specific approach to learning a new language. By Michael Friedrich.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to leverage AI-powered GitLab Duo Code Suggestions for a guided experience in learning the Rust programming language. Tutorial explains:

  • Preparations
    • VS Code
    • Code Suggestions
  • Learning a new programming language: Rust
    • Development environment for Rust
    • Hello, World
  • Cargo: Bringing structure into Rust
  • Automation: Configure CI/CD pipeline for Rust
  • Continue learning Rust
    • Define variables and print them
    • Explore variable types
    • Flow control: Conditions and loops
    • Functions
    • Testing

Tip: You can also use GitLab Remote Development workspaces to create your own cloud development environments, instead of local development environments. This blog post focuses on using VS Code and the GitLab Web IDE. Nice one!

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