5-10 minutes
In this section we cover everything you need to get started with Rust. We will set up the development environment. Ideally complete this prior to the workshop. Also if you have this set up please skip this section.
20 minutes
In this section we will start the project by reading the authentication token in from a file. We will be introduced to working with the standard library.
15 minutes
In this section our goal is to be able to successfully hit the Github API. In doing so we will learn about dependencies (crates).
20 minutes
In this section we want to be able to structure the data returned from the API call. We will learn how to interact with JSON data (and most other serialization targets as well). It will touch on macros and their power in deriving implementations.
10 minutes
In this section we will focus on small refactoring using Rust's module system. We are going to separate our code to split our models and the logic.
10 minutes
In this section we will introduce the ? operator, used for error handling in
Rust. We will look into providing more useful error types and providing more
relevant contextual information on those errors.
20 minutes
In this section we will be doing a fair bit of tweaking. At this point we have
everything all together but it is pretty much a single function which is pretty
hard to reuse and test. Here we will investigate mechanisms Rust has for
providing this modularity. In particular we want to look at making a struct
that can be used to obtain our information.
10-20 minutes
In this section we will introduce some basic examples for testing now that we have organized our code a bit better.