"The Book" from the Rust documentation (Updated to Rust 2024 Edition) decoded with concise explanations of advanced Systems Development concepts. Includes many exercises with a deep dive into Web Development and WebAssembly.

Part I: First Steps

• Introduction to Rust Programming
• Setting Up Rust
• IDE Configuration for Rust Development
• Understanding Workspaces and Cargo
• Exploring Essential Rust Concepts
• Handling Console Input

Part II: Essential Rust Building and Data Structures

Rust Building Tools

• API Guidelines
• Design Patterns
• Utilizing Macros for Repetitive Tasks
• Testing and Test Driven Development

Applying Concepts using Data Structures

• Building Your Own Rust Library
• Understanding and Implementing Enumerations
• Working with Structures
• Managing Data with Vectors
• Utilizing HashMaps for Key-Value Data Storage
• Serialization and Deserialization
• Secure Cipher Methods
• Making a Command-Line Interface (CLI) Application
• Making a User Administrative Roles Application

Part III: Understanding Operating Systems and Concurrent Programming (Multitasking)

• Introduction to Concurrent Programming
• Fundamentals of System Threads

Thread Communication with CPU Synchronization

• Understanding Closures and Move Synchronization
• Sharing Data with Scoped Threads
• Sharing Data with Atomics
• Protecting Shared Data with Mutexes
• Implementing Read/Write Locks
• Dealing with Deadlocks and Errors

Solving Concurrent Locks in Data Structures

• Lock and Lock-Free Structures
• Efficient Thread Parking

Thread Communication via Channels

• Introduction to Channels
• Understanding Channels and Ownership
• Sending Functions Across Threads

Advanced Thread Management

• Setting Thread Priorities
• Building a Work Queue with Thread Pools
• Simplifying Concurrent Workloads with Rayon
• Leveraging Scopes and Thread Pools with Rayon

Part IV: Advanced Concepts, Memory and Pointers

Introduction

• Why Memory Management Matters

Memory Management Basics

• Low-Level Memory Management
• The Use of unsafe in Rust
• The Drop Trait and RAII (Resource Acquisition is Initialization)

Advanced Concepts

• Memory Efficiency, Allocators, and Arenas
• Manipulation of Bits and Bytes

Reference Counting and Lifetimes

• Understanding Reference Counting
• The Lifetimes Concept

Traits and Generics

• Shared Behavior with Traits
• Don't Repeat Yourself with Generics

Iteration on Collections

• Iterators: Beyond the Basics
• Applying Lifetimes and Pointers in Algorithms
• Calling Other Languages with Rust

Part V: Asynchronous Programming with Rust Async/Await

First Steps with Async/Await

• Introduction to Async/Await
• Executors and Async Runtimes

Deep Dive in the Tokio Library

• Tokio Overview
• Tokio Futures
• Understanding Blocking
• Tokio Unit Tests

Advanced Concepts

• Selecting Futures
• Pinning
• Tokio Tracing
• Handling Errors

Input/Output Operations

• File I/O
• Basic Network I/O
• Async Channels (Tokio)
• Shared State (Tokio)

Working with External Tools

• Working with Databases
• Axum - The Web Framework from the Tokio Group

Let's Build a Meme Server

• Building a Meme Server