Practical Rust Projects: Building Game, Physical Computing, and Machine Learning Applications

by Shing Lyu

Go beyond the basics and build complete applications using the Rust programming language. The applications in this book include a high-performance web client, a microcontroller (for a robot, for example), a game, an app that runs on Android, and an application that incorporates AI and machine learning. Each chapter will be organized in the following what this kind of application looks like; requirements and user stories of our example program; an introduction to the Rust libraries used; the actual implementation of the example program, including common pitfalls and their solutions; and a brief comparison of libraries for building each application, if there is no clear winner.
Practical Rust Projects will open your eyes to the world of practical applications of Rust. After reading the book, you will be able to apply your Rust knowledge to build your own projects.
What You Will Learn Write Rust code that runs on microcontrollers Who This Book Is For Someone with basic Rust knowledge, wishing to learn more about how to apply Rust in a real-world scenario.

270 pages, Paperback

Published February 28, 2020

Reviews

[Maximiliano Curia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the most elegant projects, which gives the feeling that your Rust code will be finicky or that it's way too hard to avoid hardcoding the amount of inputs you want to read from a config file. Some chapters feel a bit like a copy pasting of the basic examples of the presented library. But all in all it gives a broad view of some of the tools and libraries available.

[peccu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good abstraction and guidance to introduce Rust project.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit dated now (as in the code examples need updating) but well written, and introduces rust techniques with relevant applications. There is now a 2ed that hopefully brings things up to date.