Rust Fundamentals and Tooling

Install the Rust toolchain and configure a development environment.

Create, build, and run a new project using Cargo.

Write a minimal Rust program and explain its ahead-of-time compilation model.

Distinguish between expressions and statements in Rust.

Declare immutable and mutable variables, and explain Rust's 'immutability by default' philosophy.

Use shadowing to rebind variables within a scope.

Use basic control flow constructs like `if`, `else`, and loops (`loop`, `while`, `for`).

Define functions with typed parameters and return values, including using the final expression for returns.