# Foreword

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# Introduction

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# Getting Started

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## Installation

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## Hello, World!

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## Hello, Cargo!

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# Programming a Guessing Game

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# Common Programming Concepts

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## Variables and Mutability

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## Data Types

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## Functions

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## Comments

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## Control Flow

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# Understanding Ownership

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## What Is Ownership?

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## References and Borrowing

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## The Slice Type

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# Using Structs to Structure Related Data

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## Defining and Instantiating Structs

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## An Example Program Using Structs

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## Method Syntax

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# Enums and Pattern Matching

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## Defining an Enum

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## The `match` Control Flow Operator

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## Concise Control Flow with `if let`

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# Using Modules to Reuse and Organize Code

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## `mod` and the Filesystem

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## Controlling Visibility with `pub`

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## Referring to Names in Different Modules

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# Common Collections

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## Storing Lists of Values with Vectors

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## Storing UTF-8 Encoded Text with Strings

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## Storing Keys with Associated Values in Hash Maps

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# Error Handling

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## Unrecoverable Errors with `panic!`

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## Recoverable Errors with `Result`

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## To `panic!` or Not to `panic!`

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# Generic Types, Traits, and Lifetimes

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## Generic Data Types

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## Traits: Defining Shared Behavior

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## Validating References with Lifetimes

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# Writing Automated Tests

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## How to Write Tests

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## Controlling How Tests Are Run

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## Test Organization

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# An I/O Project: Building a Command Line Program

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## Accepting Command Line Arguments

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## Reading a File

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## Refactoring to Improve Modularity and Error Handling

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## Developing the Library’s Functionality with Test-Driven Development

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## Working with Environment Variables

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## Writing Error Messages to Standard Error Instead of Standard Output

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# Functional Language Features: Iterators and Closures

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## Closures: Anonymous Functions that Can Capture Their Environment

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## Processing a Series of Items with Iterators

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## Improving Our I/O Project

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## Comparing Performance: Loops vs. Iterators

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# More About Cargo and Crates.io

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## Customizing Builds with Release Profiles

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## Publishing a Crate to Crates.io

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## Cargo Workspaces

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## Installing Binaries from Crates.io with `cargo install`

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## Extending Cargo with Custom Commands

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# Smart Pointers

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## Using `Box<T>` to Point to Data on the Heap

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## Treating Smart Pointers Like Regular References with the `Deref` Trait

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## Running Code on Cleanup with the `Drop` Trait

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## `Rc<T>`, the Reference Counted Smart Pointer

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## `RefCell<T>` and the Interior Mutability Pattern

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## Reference Cycles Can Leak Memory

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# Fearless Concurrency

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## Using Threads to Run Code Simultaneously

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## Using Message Passing to Transfer Data Between Threads

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## Shared-State Concurrency

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## Extensible Concurrency with the `Sync` and `Send` Traits

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# Object Oriented Programming Features of Rust

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## Characteristics of Object-Oriented Languages

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## Using Trait Objects that Allow for Values of Different Types

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## Implementing an Object-Oriented Design Pattern

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# Patterns and Matching

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## All the Places Patterns Can Be Used

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## Refutability: Whether a Pattern Might Fail to Match

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## Pattern Syntax

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# Advanced Features

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## Unsafe Rust

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## Advanced Lifetimes

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## Advanced Traits

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## Advanced Types

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## Advanced Functions and Closures

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# Final Project: Building a Multithreaded Web Server

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## Building a Single-Threaded Web Server

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## Turning Our Single-Threaded Server into a Multithreaded Server

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## Graceful Shutdown and Cleanup

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# Appendix

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## Appendix A: Keywords

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## Appendix B: Operators and Symbols

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## Appendix C: Derivable Traits

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## Appendix D: Macros

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## Appendix E: Translations of the Book

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# Appendix F - Newest Features

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# Appendix G - How Rust is Made and “Nightly Rust”

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