* Welcome Ken Youens-Clark

[Henry Wong]

This week, we're delighted to have Ken Youens-Clark helping to answer questions about the new book Command-Line Rust: A Project-Based Primer for Writing Rust CLIs.


The promotion starts Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 and will end on Friday, July 15th, 2022

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, O'Reilly Media.


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Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing, and should be reserved for welcoming the author. Questions posted in this topic are subject to removal.

[Al Hobbs]

Welcome!

[Campbell Ritchie]

Good to see you here; hope you have lots of awkward interesting questions

[D.J. Quavern]

Hello everyone! And welcome Ken .
Is it your second Rust book, I think I saw something else from you pass.

Long time no see <3. Ooooh I would love to play for this book!

I am in the (long on and off) process of writing a Rust gamepiler (compiler that gamifies the errors you do) and it would help me greatly :p

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome back, DJ

Please ask any questions in a new thread; I can see at least two potential questions in your post, which means two chances to win the book.

[Ken Youens-Clark]

D.J. Quavern wrote:Hello everyone! And welcome Ken .
Is it your second Rust book, I think I saw something else from you pass.

Long time no see <3. Ooooh I would love to play for this book!

I am in the (long on and off) process of writing a Rust gamepiler (compiler that gamifies the errors you do) and it would help me greatly :p

This is my first Rust book but my third book to publish. The first two are on Python: Tiny Python Projects (Manning, 2020) and Mastering Python for Bioinformatics (O'Reilly, 2021). All my books (so far) take the same approach of presenting a challenge program in each chapter. The reader is provided tests and inputs to help create a program that works according to the spec. Rust has a steep learning curve, so the book starts with printing "Hello, world!" and slowly moves through how to get command-line input from the user to how to read files and STDIN then how to write files and STDOUT and so forth. Since I stress how to write and use tests to develop the program, I'm also teaching test-driven development (TDD), which I think is the most important skill the reader can apply no matter what language they use or learn.

[Ken Youens-Clark]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:Good to see you here; hope you have lots of awkward interesting questions

Yeah, so I'm here to convince Java types to learn Rust! I think Rust has some amazing things to contribute to one's understanding of how different languages can shape how you think and code. For kicks, compare how you might write a Java version of "cat" to my Rust version in https://github.com/kyclark/command-line-rust.

[D.J. Quavern]

Yes Junilu is big on TDD.
And your mission is noble !
I am convinced in any cases. (also I hope Rust will implement some of those Java amazing tools, such as Java Path Finder)

[Liutauras Vilda]

Congratulations on the new book Ken Youens-Clark!

I see someone is trying to convert us to Rust. I hope you get a lot of tricky great questions.

[Tim Cooke]

Don't forget that this thread is for welcoming the promo author only and posts here aren't eligible for the prize winners draw.

If you want to ask a question about the book and be eligible for the prize then start a new Topic in the Other Languages forum. For the promo week Ken will be watching the forum for your questions, although there's nothing stopping Ken from hanging around longer if he so desires. Everybody is welcome.

[Ken Youens-Clark]

Tim Cooke wrote:Don't forget that this thread is for welcoming the promo author only and posts here aren't eligible for the prize winners draw.

If you want to ask a question about the book and be eligible for the prize then start a new Topic in the Other Languages forum. For the promo week Ken will be watching the forum for your questions, although there's nothing stopping Ken from hanging around longer if he so desires. Everybody is welcome.

Yeah, I'll keep checking back in to see if anyone has a question. I didn't seem to find many takers for Rust, but hit me up if you ever want to give it a try or you have questions!

[D.J. Quavern]

I didn't seem to find many takers for Rust, but hit me up if you ever want to give it a try or you have questions!

They'll come to it!
It's on Junilu's yearly list in any case.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

I just emailed him. Too late for the promo, but not too late to be helpful.

Hi Ken,
The idea was to check https://coderanch.com/f/60/ol and look at the titles. There are a number of questions about the book. Even though the promo is over, you can still go back and engage with those.

-Jeanne

[Ken Youens-Clark]

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:I just emailed him. Too late for the promo, but not too late to be helpful.

Hi Ken,
The idea was to check https://coderanch.com/f/60/ol and look at the titles. There are a number of questions about the book. Even though the promo is over, you can still go back and engage with those.

-Jeanne

Yep, I totes botched that. Sorry! I'll get on the other replies now.