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Rust Programming By Example

You're reading from Rust Programming By Example Enter the world of Rust by building engaging, concurrent, reactive, and robust applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788390637

Length 454 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Tools

Tokio

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Gomez

Antoni Boucher

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Basics of Rust FREE CHAPTER

2. Starting with SDL

3. Events and Basic Game Mechanisms

4. Adding All Game Mechanisms

5. Creating a Music Player

6. Implementing the Engine of the Music Player

7. Music Player in a More Rusty Way with Relm

8. Understanding FTP

9. Implementing an Asynchronous FTP Server

10. Implementing Asynchronous File Transfer

11. Rust Best Practices

1. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Chapter 3. Events and Basic Game Mechanisms

In the last chapter, we saw how to add dependencies into a project thanks to Cargo and the basics of the SDL2 library.

We now have all the Rust basics in order to write the Tetris game. Time to look at how we will actually write Tetris.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Tetrimino
Creating tetriminos
Generating a tetrimino
Tetris struct
Interacting with the game map
SDL events
Score, level, lines sent

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Authors (2)

Gomez

Gomez

Guillaume Gomez is an open source lover (let's keep this simple). He's a reviewer for the Rust language and a member of the GNOME organization. Guillaume lives in Paris, France.

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Antoni Boucher

Antoni Boucher

Antoni Boucher has been enjoying programming for 10 years, especially functional and system programming. He works in the ad tech industry and strives to improve the performance and reliability of software. He contributes to multiple open source projects and is interested in system programming and compilers. Antoni lives in Montreal, Canada.

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