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Your beginner rust for free plan
4 coursesabout 4.6 monthsat 8 hours a week (a steady evening habit most days of the week)
- 1Step 01
Programming Foundations
Start with Harvard's CS50 to get comfortable with variables, functions, memory, and how programs actually run. Those ideas carry straight into Rust, which assumes you already know how to program, so CS50 gives you that footing for free before the borrow checker starts asking hard questions.
beginnerHarvard CS50CertificateCS50's Introduction to Computer Science
100h · Free
- 2Step 02
Rust Fundamentals (freeCodeCamp)
freeCodeCamp's Rust course walks through the core ideas Rust is built around: ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, and the borrow checker. At roughly 14 hours it's tight enough to finish over a focused weekend without burying you, and it's the fastest way to see whether Rust clicks for you.
- 3Step 03
Rust Basics with a Certificate (Microsoft Learn)
Microsoft's free Rust path covers similar ground from a different angle, which helps ownership and error handling actually stick the second time around. It also ends with a verifiable certificate, and the Microsoft badge is worth putting on a CV or LinkedIn when you're job hunting.
- 4Step 04
Comprehensive Rust (Google)
This started as Google's internal Rust training for experienced engineers and is now open-sourced and free. It takes you from 'I understand basic Rust syntax' to 'I can write real Rust', covering the full language including unsafe Rust, concurrency, and async. Finish this and you can build production code.