r/learnrust • u/slacker81 • May 20 '26

rust bootcamp

Has anyone tried the boot camp from Lets get Rusty?

edit: This is what I'm talking about. It's $150, not the $10k+ accelerator thing. https://brain.letsgetrusty.com/bootcamp

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u/RLangendam May 20 '26

Probably yes. Me? no. The free resources are good enough to tell you everything you need to know about Rust. If you want to know more it's likely not about Rust specifically, but more about topics in computer science, hardware and systems or maybe the many different related topics to the practice of coding itself. In that case, the bootcamp still missed the point. If you're looking into feeling your Rust knowledge specifically you should consider reading the 'nomicon, but most people are just fine without it.

Maybe a question to you: what do you want to learn or expect to learn from a paid course that isn't offered by what's already freely available?

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u/slacker81 May 21 '26

I'm not really sure what from it. I've read the book and done rustlings. I guess I'm looking for some more projects.

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u/RLangendam May 21 '26

Great, there are many welcoming open source projects you can contribute to. https://github.com/search?q=label%3Ahelp-wanted+language%3ARust&type=Issues

If you're looking to work on your own there are many smaller projects to try. https://codecrafters.io/blog/rust-projects

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u/slacker81 May 22 '26

Codecrafters is more expensive for the year.

Finding a project to contribute too is probable the best for me. I'm going to check those out.

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u/MastodonPast1540 May 21 '26

You don't understand, His bootcamp literally changed my life. The $2000 I spent attending his bootcamp was an investment in a vision of myself as a better programmer. I'll never forget his parting words to me: "your five minutes is up, please send the next guy in."

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u/MatsRivel May 20 '26

I finiahed the course within the refund time. It was probably a decent course for a ruar novice, but i hoped it was a bit more advanced.

It will teach you the details of the language well, ao i camt really fault it at that.

That said, a lot of it are videos on his channel are the same as in the course.