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-#![allow(dead_code)]

 // Welcome to Rust-101
 // ===================
 // Welcome to Rust-101
 // ===================

+// 
+// This is [Rust-101](https://www.ralfj.de/projects/rust-101/), a small tutorial for
+// the [Rust language](https://www.rust-lang.org/). It is intended to be an interactive,
+// hands-on course: I believe the only way to *really* learn a language is to write code
+// in it, so you should be coding during the course.
+// 
+// If you have any questions that are not answered here, check out the "Additional Resources"
+// below. In particular, the IRC channel is filled with awesome people willing to help you! I spent
+// lots of time there ;-)
+// 
+// I will assume some familiarity with programming, and hence not explain the basic
+// concepts common to most languages. Instead, I will focus on what makes Rust special.

 //
 //

-// This is Rust-101, a small tutorial to the [Rust language](http://www.rust-lang.org/).
-// This is intended to be an interactive, hands-on course: I believe the only way to
-// *really* learn a language is to write code in it, so you should be coding during
-// the course. These documents mainly serve as a guide to the teacher, reminding me
-// what to explain in which order, and making sure I have sample code for all topics
-// I plan to cover. They may also be helpful as an offline resource, but you're on your
-// own then.
+// Why Rust?
+// ---------
+// 
+// When you got here, I am kind of assuming that you already decided to give Rust at
+// least a look, so that I don't have to do much convincing here. But just in
+// case, here's why I think Rust is worth learning:<br/>
+// At this time, Rust is a language with a pretty unique set of goals. Rust aims to
+// achieve C++-style control over memory and execution behavior (like, static vs. dynamic
+// dispatch), which makes it possible to construct abstractions that carry no run-time
+// cost. This is combined with the comfort of high-level functional languages and guaranteed
+// safety (as in, the program will not crash in uncontrolled ways). The vast majority of existing
+// languages sacrifices control for safety (for example, by enforcing the usage of
+// a garbage collector) or vice versa. Rust can run without dynamic allocation (i.e., without
+// a heap), and even without an operating system. In fact, Rust rules out more classes of bugs
+// than languages that achieve safety with a garbage collector: Besides dangling pointers and
+// double-free, Rust also prevents issues such as iterator invalidation and data races.
+// 
+// 
+// Getting started
+// ---------------
+// 
+// You will need to have Rust installed, of course. It is available for download on
+// [the Rust website](https://www.rust-lang.org/). Make sure you get at least version 1.2.
+// More detailed installation instructions are provided in
+// [the second chapter of The Book](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/installing-rust.html).
+// This will also install `cargo`, the tool responsible for building rust projects (or *crates*).
+// 
+// Next, fetch the Rust-101 source code from the [git repository](https://www.ralfj.de/git/rust-101.git)
+// (also available [on GitHub](https://github.com/RalfJung/rust-101), and as a
+// [zip archive](https://github.com/RalfJung/rust-101/archive/master.zip) in case you don't have git installed).
+// 
+// There is a workspace prepared for you in the `workspace` folder. I suggest you copy this
+// folder somewhere else. Try `cargo build` in that new folder to check that compiling your workspace succeeds.
+// (You can also execute it with `cargo run`, but you'll need to do some work before this will succeed.)

 
 

-// The actual course is in the partXX.rs files. I suggest you get started with
-// [the first part](part00.html), or jump directly to where you left off:
-
-// * [Part 00](part00.html)
-// * [Part 01](part01.html)
+// Course Content
+// --------------
+// 
+// Open `your-workspace/src/part00.rs` in your favorite editor, and follow the link below for
+// the explanations and exercises. You are ready to start. Have fun!
+// 
+// ### Introduction
+//
+// * [Part 00: Algebraic datatypes](part00.html)
+// * [Part 01: Expressions, Inherent methods](part01.html)
+// * [Part 02: Generic types, Traits](part02.html)
+// * [Part 03: Input](part03.html)
+// 
+// ### Basic Rust
+// 
+// * [Part 04: Ownership, Borrowing](part04.html)
+// * [Part 05: Clone](part05.html)
+// * [Part 06: Copy, Lifetimes](part06.html)
+// * [Part 07: Operator Overloading, Tests, Formating](part07.html)
+// * [Part 08: Associated Types, Modules](part08.html)
+// * [Part 09: Iterators](part09.html)
+// * [Part 10: Closures](part10.html)
+// 
+// ### Advanced Rust
+// 
+// * [Part 11: Trait Objects, Box, Lifetime bounds](part11.html)
+// * [Part 12: Rc, Interior Mutability, Cell, RefCell](part12.html)
+// * [Part 13: Concurrency, Arc, Send](part13.html)
+// * [Part 14: Slices, Arrays, External Dependencies](part14.html)
+// * [Part 15: Mutex, Interior Mutability (cont.), RwLock, Sync](part15.html)
+// * [Part 16: Unsafe Rust, Drop](part16.html)
+// 
+#![allow(dead_code, unused_imports, unused_variables, unused_mut, unreachable_code)]

 mod part00;
 mod part01;
 mod part00;
 mod part01;

+mod part02;
+mod part03;
+mod part04;
+mod part05;
+mod part06;
+mod part07;
+mod part08;
+mod part09;
+mod part10;
+mod part11;
+mod part12;
+mod part13;
+mod part14;
+mod part15;
+mod part16;

 
 

-// To actually run the code after filling in the blanks, simply edit the `main`
-// function below.
-
+// To actually run the code of some part (after filling in the blanks, if necessary), simply edit the `main`
+// function.

 fn main() {
 fn main() {

-    part00::part_main();
+    part00::main();

 }
 }

+
+
+// Additional material
+// -------------------
+// 
+// There's tons of useful Rust stuff out there, so let me just put links to some
+// of the most interesting places here:
+// 
+// * [The Rust Book](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/)
+// * [The Rustonomicon](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nomicon/)
+// * [Rust by Example](http://rustbyexample.com/)
+// * The [Rust Subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/)
+// * A [collection of links](https://github.com/ctjhoa/rust-learning) to blog posts, articles, videos, etc. for learning Rust.
+// * For the IRC channel and other forums, see the "Community" section of the [Rust Documentation index](https://doc.rust-lang.org/index.html)