Tonight I finished reading Beginning Rust: Get Started with Rust 2021 Edition (2e) by Carlo Milanesi. I found some detailed explanations for difficult concepts in this book that I had not come across elsewhere including The Rust Book. I also appreciated that the book teaches the formal terminology for the various language features.
I started reading "Beginning Rust" in parallel with another Rust book for beginners by a different author. Whereas the other book teaches Rust to the reader by guiding them through example applications, this book focuses strictly on the language as demonstrated with code snippets. I think the latter approach permitted the author of "Beginning Rust" to do a better job of putting the topics in prerequisite order.
Before "Beginning Rust", I also finished reading Rust for Rustaceans but I will have to read that one again in a year or two before I can review it properly as it was too advanced for me. I think "Beginning Rust" is a better immediate follow-on to "The Rust Book". I might look at Rust Atomics and Locks by Mara Bos next.
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