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Welcome from Rust and Cpp Cardiff! All levels welcome!
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This session is the start of a 4 part introduction to Rust programming! This series is aimed at developers who have programmed in a different language before, and are looking to give Rust a try. By the end of the four sessions, we hope you'll have enough of an understanding of the key concepts in Rust to have a go at programming in it yourself!

Note: this will not be a full blow-by-blow of the book. We have run a bookclub in the past, so if you enjoy these sessions then we would recommend you check out our recordings of the full bookclub on our youtube channel.

Part 1. Dev Environment Setup & Common Programming Concepts (4th Feb)
Part 2. Memory in Rust - Ownership and Structs (11th Feb)
Part 3. Patterns and Matching (25th Feb)
Part 4. Rust in Practice - module handling in a real project (4th March)

RECOMMENDED PRE-MEETUP STEPS
To get the most out of the session we recommend that attendees have installed Rust and read through the first couple of chapters of the Rust Book and tried the guessing game exercise in Chapter 2. Steps here.

SESSION SCHEDULE
18:00 - Setup troubleshooting
We expect everyone to have had a go at installing Rust before the session, but we're carving out half an hour for us to help with some basic troubleshooting where we can.
18:30 - Common Rust Programming Concepts: Variables, functions, comments etc.
This is where we will get properly started with the session. We will be walking through Chapter 3 of the Rust Book (+ a bit of Chapter 8 if we have time), which should cover basic building blocks of rust. The concepts in this section should be familiar to most folks who have programmed in other languages, and we will walk through how they look in Rust.

Recordings of previous meetups are available on youtube. We also have a discord server for chatting between meetups - message any of the meetup organizers for the discord link.

Look forward to seeing you there!

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