Experience of teaching this course to 20 university students

[FalkWoldmann]

Hi everyone, I've had the pleasure of lecturing this course as part of a seminar at my former uni. Most of the students had a background in Java or JavaScript. The course was part comprehensive Rust and part Rustlings with the tasks in comprehensive Rust as the final challenge per chapter. The feedback was generally good, but one part caused confusion.

The students were quite confused to what references are used for, since the course only introduces them without ownership. Therefore, I pivoted and covered ownership right there. In my opinion, this makes it way easier to grok the need for references. This structure also aligns better with The Book and the Rustlings.