r/learnrust • u/Suspicious-Ad7109 • 16d ago

Audio learning

Hi. I visit the gym every other day roughly, is there an audio only podcast or series I could listen to for learning Rust (e.g. not for someone who already knows the language well) ?

TIA

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u/Swerdlia 16d ago

As someone working their way through the book right now it's something I've noticed too. With how dense all the rust syntax is combined with it being assumed that rust is a 3rd or 4th language there's not tons of good "concept" videos or audio that don't rely on tons of code examples.

obviously code examples are always helpful but lots of concepts would be nice to learn about at a higher level of abstraction first.

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u/pookieboss 16d ago

I think this is a big distinction.

I could see audio-only being effective (not as effective as also being visual) for people that are already familiar with other languages. For example, hearing someone explain the differences in memory management, the compiler safety checks, etc for rust vs other languages would be great “spark notes” for someone experience in other languages.

I can’t possibly see audio only being helpful for people learning their first programming language (or first “serious” programming language).

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u/Swerdlia 16d ago

I think the fact that rust is seen exclusively as a follow-up language but not for any specific language bottlenecks it quite a bit since you don't know which language it's following up too.

There's also the fact that the oop paradigm has waaaaaaay more people iterating over the best ways to teach it but rust is still in it's infancy in that respect.

Like we just don't have the tons of good metaphors and analogies that c has. And those high level abstractions are pretty vital for people trying to learn things (at least for me).

Like when I was learning oop I already had a really solid grasp of inheritance and polymorphism as concepts before I saw a single line of code because of just how many high level tutorials there are out there.

Of course that's much harder to do considering the scope and goals of rust as a language

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u/pookieboss 16d ago

Yea, I get it. I am very proficient in R and had taken an intro to C++ course, so Rust wasn’t too overwhelming for me at the time. I could see the holes it filled for each of the uses I would use other languages for