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# Reader Requirements
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This book naturally assumes that you've already read Rust's core book:
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* [The Rust Programming Language](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/)
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Now, I _know_ it sounds silly to say "if you wanna program Rust on this old
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video game system you should already know how to program Rust", but the more
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people I meet and chat with the more they tell me that they jumped into Rust
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without reading any or all of the book. You know who you are.
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Please, read the whole book!
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In addition to the core book, there's also an expansion book that I will declare
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to be required reading for this:
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* [The Rustonomicon](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/)
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The Rustonomicon is all about trying to demystify `unsafe`. We'll end up using a
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fair bit of unsafe code as a natural consequence of doing direct hardware
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manipulations. Using unsafe is like [swinging a
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sword](https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/tumblr_mlkpzij6T81qizbpto1_1280.gif),
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you should start slowly, practice carefully, and always pay attention no matter
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how experienced you think you've become.
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That said, it's sometimes a [necessary
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tool](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTo2u13lVcQ) to get the job done, so you
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have to break out of the borderline pathological fear of using it that most rust
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programmers tend to have.
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