Free Solana + Rust Development online Course for Beginners

About course

Our expanded course for beginners will teach you to write programs on Solana using the Rust language. After training, you will boost your career and become a Rust blockchain developer with coding skills on Solana.

This training starts with learning Rust fundamentals. Master topics and pass the test after each lesson to unlock the next lecture. The next section is Solana basics. You will upskill to write and deploy code to the Solana blockchain.

The best students of this free Solana and Rust development course may receive job offers at the IdeaSoft company or our partner's companies.

What will you learn?

How to write software using Rust, you will quickly get a good understanding of the type system, ownership, error handling, traits, and more
How Rust helps you build robust and maintainable software
What the Rust ecosystem offers
Who is using Rust
How can you gain further Rust development knowledge
What is Solana blockchain, its differences from Ethereum, and cases when you should prefer Solana
Fundamental features of the Solana such as Account, PDA, CPI, storage and rent, and more
How to write production-ready programs with the Solana-SDK
Most common vulnerabilities and security best-practice
What is the Anchor framework, and what benefits it brings for Rust\Solana developers

Rust Solana Web 3.0 Blockchain

Requirements for students

The course is targeted at people with programming experience. An understanding of basic programming concepts like variables, functions, memory allocation, etcetera is assumed.
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Since Rust supports an object-oriented approach, it will be easier for you to grasp the material if you are familiar with other object-oriented programming languages, such as:

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Course creators

IdeaSoft Team & Mick van Gelderen

Blockchain Development Company & Rust Software Engineer

Blaize

Blockchain Development Company

Program

13 Modules

50 lectures

A Description of Rust
Misconceptions About Rust
Real-World Applications of Rust
Rust Tooling Overview
Your First Program

Scalar Types
Compound Types
Referential Types

Statements and Expressions
Variables and Mutability
Control Flow
Functions
Closures
Generics
Traits
Macros

What is Ownership
References and Borrowing
Interior mutability
Lifetimes
Slices

Missing Values
Recoverable Errors
Unrecoverable Errors
Guidelines Around Panicking
Elegant Early Returns With The ? Operator

Trait Details
Trait Objects

Dynamically Sized Arrays
String Types
Box
Associative Types
Smart Pointers
Arguments and the Environment
The Filesystem
Traits

Modules
Crates and Packages
Using External Packages
Workspaces

Unit Tests
Integration Tests
Benchmarks

What is Solana?
Solana pros and cons
Solana architecture overview
Core concepts of Solana program development
Setting up the development environment

What is an Account in Solana
Your first Solana program
What is PDA and how it works
What is cross program invocation and how it works
Creating an advanced dApp
Solana programs security

Solana programs development with Anchor

Deep expertise +
best educational practice due to our partners' support

How the study process looks like?

Learn lessons on Teachable

Pass the test after each lesson

Train coding skill

Fill out an application for a job after the last lesson

Get an interview, if your training is excellent

Receive a job offer at the blockchain company after the interview results

FAQ

Can I learn Rust as a first language?

For a quick transition to Rust, it is usually recommended to be able to program in C or C ++. ICB course assumes students understand the basic programming concepts like variables, functions, memory allocation, etcetera.

How does the online studying of the Rust course take place?

The course includes the Rust and Solana basics. Learn lessons, pass quizzes, and do exercises with which you can improve your retention of the material.

The lessons and tasks are collected in one place — at the Teachable platform.

The lessons unlock gradually. You will have to pass the test after each lesson for that.

Why should I choose the ICB course?

Course Rust + Solana for beginners is created in cooperation with IdeaSoft and Blaize specialists. Course authors have deep expertise in blockchain development and a clear understanding of how to prepare trainees to write their first smart contract.

In this course, you will get only the necessary beginner's knowledge and tasks. No more waste of time in a selection of information.

However, be sure that you will be able to start your career in Rust and Solana development.

What programming language does Solana use?

Solana smart contracts are built on Rust, C, and C++.

Can I skip the Rust study and go to straight to the Solana unit?

Yes, if you already know the Rust programming language. Pass the tests in the Rust section to unlock Solana basics.

How do I start off with blockchain?

Take this free blockchain development course. You will learn Rust development and the Solana environment. The acquired skills will help to begin work in blockchain.

What experts and students say about us

When I started acquaintance with Solana there was no easy way to learn core features, only documentation, SDK source code, and some examples from open-source projects. Now Solana ecosystem, have Solana cookbook and Anchor Guide Book that is pretty good, but still more focused on showing concepts and not explaining how to use them in production code.

That's why I always wished for a course that will provide you with all the necessary to write real-world Solana programs.

I hope this course will help you learn all the things about Solana development much more easily and kindly guide you from basic concepts to understanding how to create quality and robust programs.

Mark Tsyrylnyk

Blockchain Team Lead
at Blaize

To be a Rust developer, you don’t need special previous knowledge or some special background. The main point is to be encouraged by building secure and scalable applications and put sustainability as the core part of your development and vision of how to build the application.

Picking up this vector of the development and approach to building applications, Solana creates SDKs and development tools to make this way to build not only on Rust but the smart contracts and communicate with the blockchain much easier.

As the education platform, we make it twice easier. We provide a “cookbook” on how to build and “cook” your perfect experience and knowledge as a Rust developer and a smart contract developer based on Solana. We create all needed and compound tasks, experience-provided knowledge, and processes that will be needed later. This is our goal and our key unique value proposition that we put inside our ICB.

Herman Stohniiev

CTO, Co-Founder
at IdeaSoft

Solana is not the easiest blockchain in terms of developing smart contracts. Apart from knowing Rust as a programming language, it is still necessary to pass not simple acquaintance with the instruments.

This course is prepared by specialists in blockchain and decentralized systems and developers with deep experience in working with rust. And all of them are familiar with all the difficulties and pitfalls connected with the development of Solana. Therefore, I am sure that this course will provide the necessary conditions for entering this niche and will provide the necessary knowledge to specialists with the desire to develop in this direction.

Pavlo Horbonos

Blockchain Solution Architect at Blaize

Educational information in the Web3 domain is often poorly structured, overwhelming, or outdated. Our goal with ICB is to provide IT specialists with market-relevant practical education. This course will give you a clear path and a quick start in Rust+Solana development and real career opportunities.

Ann Datsenko

COO at IdeaSoft; CEO,
Co-founder at ICB

Created by senior developers with continuous hands-on experience in Rust and Solana, this course helps you get profound knowledge that you can put into practice. It is a great fit both for beginners switching to Rust/Solana and those with little experience but no systematic approach.

Alex Korobeinikov

CTO, Co-Founder
at Blaize

Pavlo Umnov

Rust Blockchain Developer at Blaize

I wanted to learn the NEAR blockchain, so it was necessary to improve my skills in Rust. I began to study the available resources, this Rust course turned out to be the simplest, most understandable, and easy to learn. Lots of material, relevant to the topic, and questions that help identify gaps in knowledge and expand understanding of the material.