Rust Bootcamp week 1: Setting up your development environment
This week, you will learn how to optimize your Rust development workflow using powerful tools such as programming suggestions, prompts with Copilot, and GitHub Codespaces. By diving into the lessons on programming with suggestions, using prompts with Copilot, and exploring the fundamentals of Codespaces, you will acquire the skills to streamline your coding process and collaborate more efficiently with others.
This is the first week of the Rust Bootcamp. There are 4 weeks in total:
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This week has several references to supporting content that can help you setup your environment. Make sure you have Rust installed and you are using Visual Studio Code.
This repository is Codespaces ready, and it is set as a template repository. You can create a new repository from this template and start working on your own with Codespaces. This means that Rust, Copilot, and all the extensions are already installed and configured for you.
🔥 If you need a quick reference for Codespaces and configuration with Visual Studio Code, feel free to reuse the configuration files in this repository.
- Rust on Visual Studio Code
- Install Rust on Windows
- RustUp the toolchaing installer
- Rust Analyzer extension
Assignment: Setting-up-your-text-editor
Assignment: Enable GitHub Copilot
Use the included lab for this week to apply the concepts you've learned. The lab lab has 3 parts that are all relevant for what you've learned this week.
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