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RESTful API with Rust: Build a Game Map Server
RESTful API with Rust: Build a Game Map Server
Instructor: Harrison Kong
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Intermediate level
Recommended experience
1.5 hours
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Hands-on learning
What you'll learn
Implement RESTful HTTP API with Rust
Write and manage asynchronous multi-threaded processes with Rust
Scale Rust applications to adjust capacity
Skills you'll practice
- Programming Principles
- OS Process Management
- Restful API
- Video Game Development
- Servers
- Debugging
- JSON
- Rust (Programming Language)
- Web Development
- TCP/IP
- Scalability
- Application Programming Interface (API)
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About this Guided Project
Learn step-by-step
In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
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Task 1: Introduction, Project Overview and Setup
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Task 2: Write Code to Respond to HTTP Requests
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Task 3: Send Back Responses and Handle Errors
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Optional Practice Task 1
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Task 4: Obtain Latest Map Data
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Task 5: Produce and Send Back Data in JSON
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Task 6: Make the Server Multi-Threaded
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Optional Practice Task 2
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Optional Cumulative Challenge
Recommended experience
Rust fundamentals including collections, variables, ownership, functions, macros, Cargo build system. REST API, JSON, TCP and HTTP optional.
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