On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:50 PM, David Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know of any other efforts to use Rust in teaching, or have any > advice on this? I would welcome any suggestions or pointers to resources > that might be useful for this (or caveats if people think Rust is not > ready/appropriate to use for an undergraduate course now?)
One risk that no one has mentioned yet is that the Rust documentation isn't all that good yet, by which I mean both the official docs and the other resources that are available. I know that when I was an undergrad, I sometimes struggled with picking up a new language even when the docs were quite complete and correct, and that isn't the case with Rust yet. And for some undergrads, just building and installing Rust might be a hurdle. Moreover, if they install a released version of the language and then complain of problems on the IRC channel, they're likely to hear, "That's been fixed in the head of the tree for three weeks already. Keep up!" For that matter, if your students aren't already familiar with how to participate (even as a user) in a young open-source project, they might be stymied in trying to work with Rust. At the moment, step 0 in learning Rust may be learning how to use IRC. All this will, of course, improve with time. Lindsey _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
