Open Rust: Essential Rust for Substrate Developers

Curriculum

Getting started

Module Index	Module Name	Assignments
Module 0	Overview of Rust and Polkadot SDK	2 in total
Module 0.1	Introduction to Rust
Module 0.2	Introduction to Polkadot SDK	1 multiple select question
Module 1	Rust Basic Concepts	2 in total
Module 1.1	Common programming concepts
Module 1.2	Program life cycle	1 exercise-based assignment
Module 1.3	Ownership & Borrow checker
Module 1.4	Common Data Structures	1 project-based assignment
Module 2	Advanced Rust Concepts	2 in total
Module 2.1	Generic types, trait extension and advanced types
Module 2.2	Lifetimes	1 exercise-based assignment
Module 2.3	Smart pointers & Macros
Module 2.4	Common design patterns in Rust
Module 2.5	Package Management & How to structure your Rust project	1 project-based assignment
Module 2.6	Overview of the Rust ecosystem: Libraries & Resources
Module 3	Rust in Substrate	2 in total
Module 3.1	Common blockchain data structures: Header, Block, Extrinsic, etc.
Module 3.2	Substrate State Machine in Rust	1 exercise-based assignment
Module 3.3	Common Rust libraries used in Substrate Node
Module 3.4	Modular architecture of Substrate FRAME system. Defining shared behaviour of traits
Module 3.5	WebAssembly in Rust & WASM executor	1 project-based assignment
Module 3.6	Advanced macros used in Substrate

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Self-taught Resources

General Resources

• Rust | Rust Language Cheat Sheet
• Rust | A bunch of links to blog posts, articles, videos, etc for learning Rust

Learn by Practice

• Exercise | Rust | Polkadot Blockchain Academy - Qualification Exam: This exam is maintained by the Polkadot Blockchain Academy, for the benefit of the entire Rust community. The Academy accepts individuals modestly skilled in Rust, and maintains this exam to help everyone asses their proficiency being of a level we would consider for the program.
• Exercise | Rust | Rust by Practice: Practice Rust with challenging examples, exercises and projects

Courses, Videos & Tutorials

• Couuse | Rust | Design Patterns in Rust: Learn common design patterns & anti-pattern in Rust
• Course | Rust | Comprehensive Rust (by Google Android Team): This is a free Rust course developed by the Android team at Google. The course covers the full spectrum of Rust, from basic syntax to advanced topics like generics and error handling.
• Tutorial | WASM | WebAssembly Fizzbuzz: WebAssembly crash course
• Tutorial | WASM | Port 1997 DOOM to Web Assembly: This course is in a WebAssembly Fizzbuzz course collection
• Video | What and How about Futures and async/await in Rust - Jon Gjengset

Programming Concepts

• Rust | Advanced Concepts | Typelevel Recursion
• Rust | "Move, copies and clones in Rust" by HashRust

Asynchronous Programming

• Rust | Advanced Concepts | Actor Model by Actix: Actor basically has their own execution context, communicates with each other through messaging channel
• Rust | Rust Forum - Pin use in Future::poll(): Discussion thread about Future::pollPint(<&mut self>, _) on Rust Forum, the discussion explains the Pin trait in a very deep level of low-level knowledge.
• Rust | "Pin, Unpin and why Rust needs them" by Cloudflare
• Rust | "Understanding pinning in Rust futures" on Hackernoon: This resource is very easy to understand, it gives a clear cut about Future and Pinning

Asynchronous Runtime - Scheduler

• Rust | std::pin::Pin: Pin Projection: Learn more about pin_project crate for safe pin projection
• Rust | "How Tokio schedule tasks?" on Rust Magazine
• Rust | Advanced Concepts | Scheduling Internals
• Rust | About Tokio scheduler internal: Understanding how Tokio scheduler works under the hood