Practice

How I am learning about Rust, Go, Java , and Scala (and other things)

Table of Contents

• Repositories
  
• References
  
• Community
  
• Miscellaneous
  

Repositories

Writing and running code is a great way to learn about a language or topic. Below are some projects that I've created to learn about various things.

I typically setup a project as a git repository that is hosted on GitHub. I like to use JetBrains IDEs.

Rust

I am trying to learn Rust better. Here are some projects that I've created to learn about Rust:

Network Programming

• Crawler - Web Crawler
• Chat - TCP Chat Server
• Yeet - UDP Chat Server
• Dns - DNS Server
• Load-Generator - Load Generator for Load Testing

Asynchronous Programming

• Tokio-Utils - Utilities for Tokio
  • Tub - async pool
  • Shutdown-Async - gracefully shutdown async tasks
  • Async-Throttle - async rate limiting
  • Async-Stdin - read from stdin asynchronously

Miscellaneous

• lib-wc - playground for learning Rust

Go

go-practice

Java

java-practice

Before I got into Rust, I liked Java for a little bit. This repository contains some remnants of that.

Scala

scala-practice

References

Here are books that I've found useful. I've read through most of them & highlight the ones which have been most impactful to me.

I recommend teachyourselfcs.com if you are struggling to find a way to learn a certain topic in Computer Science.

O'Reilly and Manning are great resources to find books and projects!

General

• The Algorithm Design Manual (highly recommended)
• The Art of Multiprocessor Programming (highly recommended)
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications (highly recommended)
• Introduction to Algorithms
• Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures
• Modern Operating Systems
• Cracking the Coding Interview

Rust

See Learning Rust in 2023, a blog post I wrote about learning Rust

• The Rust Programming Language (highly recommended)
• Rust Atomics and Locks (highly recommended)
• Zero2Prod (highly recommended)
• Rust in Action
• Rust for Rustaceans
• Command-Line Rust

Go

• Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go (making command line tools is a lot of fun!)
• The Go Programming Language (highly recommended)
• Learn Go with Tests (highly recommended)
• Concurrency in Go (highly recommended)
• Network Programming with Go
• Distributed Services with Go

Java

• Java Concurrency in Practice (highly recommended)
• Effective Java (highly recommended)
• Optimizing Java (I recommend it if you want to learn about the JVM and its internals)
• Java Performance

Scala

• Hands on Scala (highly recommended)
• Programming in Scala

Community

Learning from others is a good strategy! Here are resources from people in various communities that I look at every now and then

Rust

• Jon Gjengset
• matklad
• fasterthanlime

Miscellaneous

Obsidian

Obsidian acts as a powerful note taking app. It markets itself as:

a powerful and extensible knowledge base that works on top of your local folder of plain text files

I'd have to agree with that; it's pretty freaking good...

I use it as my own personal wiki & write notes on topics that I'm interested in.

You can see how other people set their vaults up by looking at "Digital Gardens".

Obsidian + Git

Since Obsidian uses plain text files in a folder, you can naturally model your vault as a git repository. This allows you to treat your notes similar to code.