bigfleet

bigfleet

Hands-on Rust: treehouse or hello_yourname? (pg. 20)

In the “Prompting for the Visitor’s Name” section, contextually, the reader has just created the treehouse project. As they look for a prompt to which file to edit, they see, in the blue highlighted section,

FirstStepsWithRust/hello_yourname/src/main.rs

This appears to be a delightful convention that allows the source to be downloaded directly-- awesome!! – but the reader was in the treehouse, not hello_yourname. A small info box that explains the convention, and how to (perhaps) focus on the filename after src for their own work may be helpful.

Marked As Solved

herbert

herbert

Author of Hands-on Rust

Thanks for reporting the issue! I’ve put it into the issue tracker, I’ll try to clean it up for beta 3. There’s a note in the preface about source examples advancing through the chapter, but it’s not as clear as I’d like it to be - so I’ll see if I can make it more explicit in the body text. The “embed source” feature of the book builder is awesome in general, but does make it tricky when a chapter needs to work over multiple examples (I wanted to provide the reader with source for steps along the way, rather than a big dump of the final product of each chapter; the journey is more important than the destination for learning a language).

I’m not sure if the system will let me change the rendering of the source names, so it’ll probably take the form of a note that it’s advanced to the next section. (I’ll also triple-check that I intended to advance at each point).

Thanks - beta 3 will clear this up. :slight_smile:

Also Liked

seanjseymour

seanjseymour

Wow, I didn’t realize that the highlighted sections were links to source, that is great! It also explains what happened to cause the errata in my post. Looks like the source code changed but the book didn’t. I agree, calling this convention out more explicitly would be useful.

Where Next?

Popular Pragmatic Bookshelf topics Top

Alexandr
Hi everyone! There is an error on the page 71 in the book “Programming machine learning from coding to depp learning” P. Perrotta. You c...
New
simonpeter
When I try the command to create a pair of migration files I get an error. user=> (create-migration "guestbook") Execution error (Ill...
New
raul
Page 28: It implements io.ReaderAt on the store type. Sorry if it’s a dumb question but was the io.ReaderAt supposed to be io.ReadAt? ...
New
herminiotorres
Hi! I know not the intentions behind this narrative when called, on page XI: mount() |> handle_event() |> render() but the correc...
New
cro
I am working on the “Your Turn” for chapter one and building out the restart button talked about on page 27. It recommends looking into ...
New
adamwoolhether
I’m not quite sure what’s going on here, but I’m unable to have to containers successfully complete the Readiness/Liveness checks. I’m im...
New
hgkjshegfskef
The test is as follows: Scenario: Intersecting a scaled sphere with a ray Given r ← ray(point(0, 0, -5), vector(0, 0, 1)) And s ← sphere...
New
taguniversalmachine
Hi, I am getting an error I cannot figure out on my test. I have what I think is the exact code from the book, other than I changed “us...
New
ggerico
I got this error when executing the plot files on macOS Ventura 13.0.1 with Python 3.10.8 and matplotlib 3.6.1: programming_ML/code/03_...
New
dachristenson
I’ve got to the end of Ch. 11, and the app runs, with all tabs displaying what they should – at first. After switching around between St...
New

Other popular topics Top

PragmaticBookshelf
Design and develop sophisticated 2D games that are as much fun to make as they are to play. From particle effects and pathfinding to soci...
New
New
AstonJ
Curious to know which languages and frameworks you’re all thinking about learning next :upside_down_face: Perhaps if there’s enough peop...
New
AstonJ
There’s a whole world of custom keycaps out there that I didn’t know existed! Check out all of our Keycaps threads here: https://forum....
New
AstonJ
Biggest jackpot ever apparently! :upside_down_face: I don’t (usually) gamble/play the lottery, but working on a program to predict the...
New
foxtrottwist
A few weeks ago I started using Warp a terminal written in rust. Though in it’s current state of development there are a few caveats (tab...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Programming Ruby is the most complete book on Ruby, covering both the language itself and the standard library as well as commonly used t...
New
hilfordjames
There appears to have been an update that has changed the terminology for what has previously been known as the Taskbar Overflow - this h...
New
CommunityNews
A Brief Review of the Minisforum V3 AMD Tablet. Update: I have created an awesome-minisforum-v3 GitHub repository to list information fo...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Fight complexity and reclaim the original spirit of agility by learning to simplify how you develop software. The result: a more humane a...
New

Sub Categories: