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## Learning Material Updates

### [Hands-on Rust][hands-on-rust]

[![Hands-On Rust](hands-on-rust-live.jpg)][hands-on-rust]

["Hands-on Rust: Effective Learning through 2D Game Development and Play"][hands-on-rust]
by Herbert Wolverson is now in print, as a full color paperback and ebook.
The book teaches Rust through game development examples, and is targeted at
readers who have some experience with writing code in other languages. It
teaches beginner to intermediate-level Rust. Hands-on Rust also teaches
high-level game development concepts, notably Entity-Component System (ECS)
theory.

After walking you through installing Rust, a few simple examples teach the
language basics. Then you put these together to make "Flappy Dragon" - a
simple Flappy Bird clone. The book then changes gear and begins to build a
dungeon crawler (roguelike) with tile graphics.

Outside of the USA, Hands-on Rust is available through [Amazon][hands-on-amazon].

Herbert also published the first ["Hands-on Rust bonus content"][hands-on-flappy].
The bonus content extends Flappy Dragon to include smooth movement and
animated sprites.

[hands-on-rust]: https://pragprog.com/titles/hwrust/hands-on-rust/
[hands-on-amazon]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1680508164
[hands-on-flappy]: https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/flappy-dragon-rust-647e91a34dd4

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