This is fun. The Aalto University in Finland has an online beginners course on Rust: Aalto FITech101 Courses complete with lots of fun exercises.
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"This part of the course is extra material"
This (tests) should be central to teaching.
Alternatively skip to the final assignment and give it to a LLM.
Where did you read that in there?
And where would the fun in that be? Besides I have yet to try an LLM that can write decent Rust.
Edit: I found it. It's in the section on tests. You might have a point.
Yay! I completed the course. Assignments 100% completed and correct. I get some credits toward a degree, not that I'm about to start down that road.
Mostly straightforward given that I have been using Rust for a few years now. But useful in that it forced me to look at some things I had been avoiding. I had been avoiding any lifetime tick marks in my code or using generics other than those required for using libraries or macros...
I find they have gotten a lot better compared to when they first came out.
Would be weird to use one in this case though.
I tried Codeium just now. I was stuck on a course question which asked you to fix some non-compiling code. I asked Codeium to explain and it came up with the exact same answer as the course. (The compiler message itself wasn't that helpful in this case.)
I find Codeium to be pretty good. Though I'm only at beginner level, compared to most people here!
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Yeah. I had a pleasant surprise the other day. The compiler was issuing an error that I could make no sense of, the help it suggested didn't. After a while I gave in and asked whatever AI is in my Warp terminal. It gave a nice explanation in plain English as to what was causing the problem. And it offered a fix that worked and looked exactly like what I would have written now that I understood the problem. I'm pretty sure that Warp AI was snooping at the whole directory of code I was in as its suggestion included code that I written in there somewhere already.
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