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On “Creating a 2 hour Rust intro for my university's intro systems class”
I’ve got no specific advice, but you might start by watching the 2-part YouTube series where Jonathan Turner (Rust Core team member and one of the Nu shell authors) introduces Rust to his C++ content creator cousin Jason Turner. It’s not as concise as you’ll want your presentation to be, but you’ll get a sense of how an experienced Rust dev explains Rust to someone coming from a C++ perspective and get an idea from Jason about what things make intuitive sense and which need explaining. Most experienced Rust programmers won’t learn much about Rust from it, but I found it interesting to see Rust through the eyes of someone with a much different programming background from my own.
Anyway, if y…