Coursework for learning Rust for blockchain projects.

• What is Cargo and why do you need it?

  • Cargo is a Rust package manager It downloads your package's dependencies, compiles your packages, makes distributable packages, and uploads them to crates.io.

• To install Rust and Cargo on a Linux OS, run below command on the terminal.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

For other OS, check this link for instructions

Run the command to store the projects. cargo new folder_name

A typical setup for a Rust project will contain the below. In our case, folder folder_name should contain:

• Cargo.lock
• Cargo.toml
• src
• target

To run a single script, first compile is using the below command rustc file_name.rs Then run your program using ./file_name

• Commands
  • cargo build
  • cargp run
  • cargo check