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Methods used in exercise before they are introduced #510

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djmitche opened this issue Mar 15, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #913
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Methods used in exercise before they are introduced #510

djmitche opened this issue Mar 15, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #913
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Day one's afternoon exercises use methods, but these aren't described until day 2. The afternoon exercises use traits as well (Iterator, IntoIterator), but perhaps those are more easily explained away with references to future slides.
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Yeah, methods are only mentioned very briefly on Day 1 and I don't think traits are mentioned at all. This is something we need to fix.

I'm slowly starting to work on a restructuring of the course following feedback from you, @CasperN (in #156), and others internally at Google. Avoiding these "forward references" is high on the wish list 😄 They add a lot of extra work for the instructor who now have to be aware of this and casually explain things like methods early.

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This will be fixed with #913!

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Reorder material on first two days (#913)
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- Morning of Day 1 still introduces the language and its high-level
goals/value proposition, and starts with the built-in data types Rust
provides, and how you define a function. 
- Afternoon of Day 1 gets a front loading of the basic control flow
structures in Rust but not the more exotic ones.
- The exercises for day 1 afternoon will be the Luhn algorithm (where we
can match on digits and enums such as `Option`.
- Morning of day 2 still has discussion of memory management.

Fixes #510.

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Co-authored-by: Martin Geisler <mgeisler@google.com>
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Reorder material on first two days (google#913)
3b4230a 
- Morning of Day 1 still introduces the language and its high-level
goals/value proposition, and starts with the built-in data types Rust
provides, and how you define a function. 
- Afternoon of Day 1 gets a front loading of the basic control flow
structures in Rust but not the more exotic ones.
- The exercises for day 1 afternoon will be the Luhn algorithm (where we
can match on digits and enums such as `Option`.
- Morning of day 2 still has discussion of memory management.

Fixes google#510.

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Co-authored-by: Martin Geisler <mgeisler@google.com>
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