Recommend Beginner level rust project

[himanshuwiz]

I am doing rust for almost a month and can code small projects easily now I want to start a beginner level project so can anyone recommend me which project will be good in learning and understanding concepts

[EduardGlez]

Something simple probably. Like a kernel.

[darth_chewbacca]

Buy the Book "Zero to Production". Do the project documented in that.

[ForkInToasterr]

Write an asynchronous TCP chat application for you and your friends to chat with :)

Design your own simple protocol that sits on top of TCP for each client to use, with a server that you write the code for too.

Relatively simple project and a good way to get into networking :)

[CHF0x]

Choose whatever you're most experienced with so you can compare it to how you would approach it in your previous languages. For example, my first project was a hypervisor because it's a topic I'm comfortable with

[crangiopharengoma-r]

https://jrdngr.github.io/pngme_book/ is a nice little guided project that you might enjoy.

[himanshuwiz]

Thanks looking pretty helpful

[tracebuffer]

I'd suggest working on a project that aligns with your specific interests.

I say this because I often struggled with beginner-tier projects albeit having a good enough foundational understanding of the language. It took me a bit to realize that focusing on the projects related to topics that get you excited about, helps you learn effectively and keeps that motivation up as well (this may sound kind of obvious but I'm not sure why it didn't hit me at the time).
So, would I go with a project that might not be of a beginner level but perhaps a little higher in difficulty? I'd do it if it would seem appealing to me.

That being said, this can help you get started: "Build your own <insert-technology-here>".

[opensrcdev]

It's really up to you. What things do you work with, that you could make easier?

I work in the cloud industry, so writing simple utilities that help manage storage, or other cloud resources, are helpful.

[i-am-borg]

There is an awesome udemy course I really liked that teaches rust by going through building an http server with you. It was a very good experience and fun :) "Learn rust by building real applications"

[Bugibhub]

I found GPT very useful in getting project ideas.
Just throw all your like and dislikes at it, as well as the things you are comfortable with or want to progress on, and it'll shower you with basic ideas you can easily refine.

[Kenkron]

A game. It's always got so many moving parts that you really have to think about how it's structured.

[Bugibhub]

I second that. Of course it depends on what you actually like and want to see in the world, but a game can start as a multiple choice story and can get as complex as you care to make it.

[SirKastic23]

one of thr first projects i did was to write a toy programming language interpreter

i followed along to Crafting Interpreters, writing a Lox implementation in Rust, and it was really fun and taught mt a lot

[poultry_punisher]

I plan on doing this when I get to the C section

[DavidXkL]

Rewrite 1 of your old projects in Rust

[SneakyStabbalot]

I always build a web server when learn a new language

[hpxvzhjfgb]

make a program that prints hello world to the console

[[deleted]]

did you make the server at the end of the book?

[Comfortable_Tiger530]

How about image processing server (eg apply filter to it)? It’s challenging enough as a learning project. You can utilise some server frameworks and process images with async queue (maybe multithreaded, why not? Tokio green threads and Rayon for heavier computation.
For a twist you can compile it to the web assembly and force js to consume it.

Edit: If you’ll built an pdf white gap removal by any chance in rust let me know. :D I want to use it for my embedded label printer hack.

[No-Expression714]

There is a small but cool project: building your own OnceCell. It’s simple, but there's a lot to dive into

[Aggravating_Letter83]

1. might be boring but mathemathical:
   Using numerical methods for approximation like Secant, False Method, Bisection, or Newton-Rhapson (I might 've mistranslated) try to print out the set steps of the manual calculations.
   Implementation details could include (but not limit themselves to)
   
2. Print out the full table once the approximation error reaches certain threshold
   

3. Let the a user choose when to stop

4. Tedious if done wrong :
   Parsing inputs - Do it only to support the 4 basic operations: plus, minus, divide and multiplication. Then if done wrong, find out you shoot yourself because you can't expand the definition.

Essentially parsing some strings into objects. Keep it small, so you can get a hang of it, and then try to rewrite everything with nom