Road to Learn Rust Quickly

Aligning to a lot of the ideas that were expressed by Joe’s How to Learn Quickly, I would like to take my first stab at what that would look like for myself. This will be broken down in the same way as he establishes it:

1. Make Your Map
2. Stay on Track
3. Cross the Finishline

Make Your Map

When thinking of my map here are the answers to the questions I have:

Clear Vision “Learn Rust deeply and become a maintainer/contributor of the Rust implementation of MDX”

To achieve this, I will need to complete a few objectives along the way:

• Read the rest of “The Rust Programming Language Book
• Read the “unified handbook”
• Contribute to MDX’s JavaScript implementation
• Build small projects with Rust to exercise all learnings
• Continue to document my Rust learnings on my blog

The designated time frame shall be: 5 months * 10hrs/wk * 4 weeks = 200 hours in total.

The timeline would be best to accomplish this as:

1. Week 1

• The Rust Programming Language
  • Read 3 chapters
• unified handbook
  • Read ASTs, unist, unified sections
• Work through 4 Rust by Example sections
• Review MDX Advanced Section
  • API

2. Week 2

• The Rust Programming Language
  • Read 3 chapters
• unified handbook
  • Read remark, rehype, retext, MDX sections
• Work through 4 Rust by Example sections
• Review MDX Advanced Section
  • AST

3. Week 3

• The Rust Programming Language
  • Read 3 chapters
• unified handbook
  • Read Tree Traversal section
• Work through 4 Rust by Example sections
• Review MDX Advanced Section
  • Components
  • remark and rehype plugins

4. Week 4

• The Rust Programming Language
  • Read 3 Chapters
• Review MDX Advanced Section
  • transform content
• Finish Rust by Example

I want to take this 4 week past first and evaluate velocity and efficacy of this work. In addition I would like to have a project that I work on which is a bit hard to scope without knowing where I am past this. I want to also scope work for contributing to MDX but once again requires more research