(Note: there’s a lot of preamble you can read at Becoming maintainer of the Rust track but you can also skip that and start here :))
This issue is going to be a tracking issue for what we’re doing to get a new Rust Syllabus built. I’m really excited about getting the it launch and also about trying a more collaborative approach to syllabus building at Exercism! Rather than adding too much noise to this issue, please consider opening new issues for specific questions.
Here are a few key points to note:
- The Exercism staff (specifically me, @ErikSchierboom and @jonathanmiddleton) are going to lead this project, but try and avoid doing any actual coding/writing/reviewing. We want to empower and knowledge-share with the people involved.
- We’re going to loosely follow the syllabus of the Rust Book,
- Someone should be able to learn Rust through this syllabus.
- We want to get people writing Rust code as quickly as possible using their existing knowledge, so the first set of exercises won’t have too much Rust-specific stuff in.
- When a student gets to Rust-specific exercises, they should be able learn in bitesized chunks and feel confident without needing to read other websites.
The project is going to be structured like this:
- Build out the first few exercises that don’t require Rust-specific concepts (effectively chapter 3 of the Rust book). A lot of this work has already been done by @isDineshHere - we now need to go through and get those merged.
- For each Rust-specific topic, discuss in a dedicated thread: firstly agreeing an exemplar exercise, then agreeing (in bullet points) the topics to cover in the introduction and the about, then agreeing the exercise/tasks. Then someone will go and turn that into an Exercise and Concepts.
- Connect the right Practice Exercises to each Concept
- Do a refinement pass on everything
- Launch!
We’re going to take an optimistic merging approach, where if something is pretty much there, we merge it, then in the final phase, we’ll tidy things up.
This is a list of the official forum topics for each of the steps above (WIP):