Finally refreshed the terminal screen

It was always a big question in me that all schooling/engineering  programming  courses( C or assembly)  teach Fibonacci series or some tough logic program ( something like for a given number 'N' search the subset bla bla .. ) . But when I looked at the computer , I wondered how they build these screens/commands and applications.. is it with Maths ?  is it with Fibonacci series /prime numbers? (They are not, it made up of simple logics.. but its like a 'building blocks' game)

My expectation from computer classes was  to build some screens or applications ,  ( but generally I got bored with theory . there was my fault too , i admit ) . Computer applications/commands  did not look like mathematical problem ,But computer subjects seems to me as  mathematics subject. ( I know they really need maths, when we deep dive).

But as a beginner, I misunderstood that someone who knows deep maths can only do something with computer .. but actually that is not the case.

Whatever programs I studied/taught to  do something with stdin ( standard input) or stdout( standard /the screen), are something like 'reverse string' or 'search character', but they did not generate any motivation to build some real world applications, rather I got scared even to attempt/read big programs, thinking it might require big logical algorithms that my brain can't digest.  but as student I always wanted to build something like 'vi' (editor) or some commands or something having windows (not Microsoft windows) screen. At least I wanted to know how these functionalities are coming in the screen.
When I build some functionality that actual 'vi' editor has , I feels like I am writing programs as a professional (Really its not the case)

Having said all these story :-)  as a hobby project , I am  trying to build an editor based on the documentation https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/03.rawInputAndOutput.html

I am learning lot of things when I wanted my program to do some functionality that 'vi' editor does.

More over I am trying to build this in Rust language  which is a new generation  computer programming language , capable of replacing 'C' language. Every system programmers should try to learn it as per http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140e/

:-)


My text editor draft , just refreshed the screen :-)
https://github.com/davnav/RustEditor



The clear screen functionality can be easily built with below code, but it was never known to me ( as I know only Fibonacci ... :-) )

// Refresh the screen by writing "x1b[2J" byte to screen
io::stdout().write(b"\x1b[2J");
println!();

// align the cursor to the left top by writing  "\x1b[H" byte to screen
io::stdout().write(b"\x1b[H");



but be aware , Rust compiler is ruthless :-) . it makes us read the documentation thoroughly.

do we need to take care 'String' type carefully ?

When I tried to do something with "Strings" in C programming language, either it won't give the desired result or I end up in 'Segmentation fault'. Lot of books in C show "Strings" manipulating with pointers. I like C in the sense  that we can access the characters with the memory where they sit. But when  I compile the full program, it compiles without any error , but finally  when I run it , normally I endup in "Segmentation fault".


So thought of learning some string manipulation/Methods in Rust Programming language.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html#method.from

Rust-lang learning continuation...

I tried to start again to read on the Rust-Lang tutorials . I thought , i can start with web development in Rust. Usually I directly jump to advanced side of a language and stop it in a few days :-).  Most of the languages I tried that way are ok to start, But Rust is a little more difficult .

For Rust , directly jumping to web development is really tough without understanding the basics. But I am not going to change that method.( really its like ,going back and forth )


Rocket is similar to Flask or Django .. but Rust syntax is killing me.. I can't blame Rust, as it is trying implement safe code.  Rust compiler is so rude, seems like  it won't allow me to compile a single program :-)

Todays learning:

&'static str

"This basically reads as "a reference to a string slice with the lifetime of static", which means that the string has a lifetime of the global scope"

& is familar symbol for programmers, it is used to reference a variable. Generally to get the address of variable .

just refreshed here - https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~myers/c++/notes/references.html

But what is  ' symbol , this is something new to me. it is the lifetime. other programming languages have the scope of the variable. But those languages compilers are not always smart enough to understand the scope of the variables or in other words Rust-lang push to define the life time of the variables for each functions. ( From this, I hope compiler can do the garbage collection by itself)

read more: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-in-Rust

Crates and Modules in Rust Language

I was trying to jump into Rust programming language through Rocket web framework. I know it might be a tough attend to directly start with Rocket without much understanding on the Rust syntax.

I believe I have a minimum understanding on Rust syntax and I thought let learn it reverse way , whenever something comes strange or unknown ,let go reverse and goto the basics.

 So, with that strategy when I jump to Rocket , I came across lot of new things.. Ofcourse Rust has lot of new syntax , terminologies. But since I had some prior knowledge on Flask,Django web frameworks, I did not stunt by the folder structures and initial quick start steps.

but it is really fun learning it in reverse way, lot of new things to understand.

One thing was Crates and Modules. It not a new idea, but it a new term and building it in Rust is quite easy.

We have a good documentation from these from Rust developers.

As per my understanding,

If you know python, we will be using packages there. Similar way we can use Crates to build modules and import them into our program.

I hope below documentation will be enough to read through it and try it.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/crates-and-modules.html

https://rustbyexample.com/attribute/crate.html