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Calculate mean, median, and mode in Rust

Learn to love rustfmt. For example, the Rust standard is 4-space indents. Learn to love Clippy, which can show you the more idiomatic way to iterate over a collection: ...
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Simplest way to write "FizzBuzz" in Rust

I think that match is better, you just do not know how to cook it ;) ...
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Web crawler in Rust

Cargo Fmt There's a very common tool accessible through cargo which can format all of the code in your project according to Rust's official style guide. Many major ...
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Binary Tree Implementation in Rust

Examples have first-class support in Cargo. Place them in a directory examples next to src. They can then be run with ...
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Shoe shine shop model in Rust

Correctness of the solution On reflection, I'm not sure either the C++ or the Rust code solves the problem as stated. I'm not completely sure I understand the shoe shine shop model so I may be wrong. ...
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Fahrenheit and Celsius converter in Rust

The first thing I always do is running clippy. You will catch some things that are not neccessary, e.g. fn main() -> () can ...
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Calculating the median and mode of a list of integers

Your Code Is Buggy. Test It! Try this testcase: assert_eq!(exercise_median_of_vector(&mut Vec::from([1])), 1); Always write test cases for your code! In a ...
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Writing slice compare in a more compact way

What about this: ...
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Circular FIFO Buffer

Your code looks pretty decent. My two cents: Implement Default ...
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Insertion sort in Rust

As you have already been made aware, you should not be using &mut Vec<T> unless you plan on adding or removing items from the ...
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Pig Latin exercise in Rust

For overall issues, these jump out: s[i].is_alphabetic() && i < s.len() can panic, because you access the value before checking the length, it would ...
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n-th Fibonacci number with memoization

I like this. Your code is clean and pretty readable. I recommend using rustfmt, if only because it will stop annoying people on the internet from recommending you ...
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Gamma function in Rust

There's not a lot of code here so there's not a lot to say. ^_^ Implementations like this are generally outside of the day-to-day knowledge of most programmers. You may wish to include a reference in ...
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Rust Brainfuck interpreter

Profile You can only improve what you can measure. So first of all let us run callgrind to check where we spent most of our time: ...
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BTreeMap as a multimap in Rust

Idiomatic Rust style is to place braces on same line. When the function definition gets longer than one line then the brace lives on the next line all on its own. Learn and love the ...
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Recursive Fibonacci in Rust with memoization

There's no reason to ascribe a type to memo. Don't expose the memoization logic outside the call. Instead, create a shim function that creates the memoization ...
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Shoe shine shop model in Rust

Forgive me, I am unable to review the rust code because I do not know rust, I am only reviewing the c++ code.. Use System Defined Exit Codes Returning -1 as an ...
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Number-guessing game based on Rust tutorial

Welcome to Rust! Code Formatting There are some inconsistencies in your formatting — I have run cargo fmt to get rid of them. Naming There's no need to prefix ...
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piglatin exercise in rust

Not a bad start. Some ways it could be improved: Use &str for String Slices Currently, you cannot call ...
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Tokenize s-expressions in Rust

The biggest thing I can say is listen to your tests. The very first thing I noticed as I was skimming is how repetitive they were. Even worse, the repeated parts drowned out the interesting aspects of ...
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A Rusty implementation of CowSay

The tests fail. That's not a good thing: ...
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Temperature Scale Converter in Rust

This looks like a pretty good first effort, but there are definitely some stylistic issues here as well as a few more advanced features that would make this a lot better. Getting started with the ...
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Binary adder implemented in Rust

Because you're only working with ascii 0 and 1 you could use bytes instead of characters everywhere, it saves 3 bytes for every ...
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Selection sort algorithm in Rust

You could use min_by_key to find the minimum's index and the method swap defined in slices: ...
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Calculating word-wise CRC

Overall, this looks very reasonable! There are some small style nits like spaces inside of struct declarations. A few bigger points: The Rust community loves crates and reusing existing work. In this ...
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Reversal of a singly-linked list in Rust

Before I begin, I recommend reading Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists. Avoid unwraps, especially those after checking ...
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MergeSort in Rust

Disclaimer: I'm also new to Rust, but I have a background in C, C++ and Haskell. Take everything I say with a grain of salt. All of that looks reasonable, except for the ...
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Alphabet cypher in Rust

Disclaimer: I'm a Rust beginner with a background in C and C++. Now that I've lost my credibility, let's have a look at your code. Use rustfmt, clippy and rustc There are (at least) three helpful ...
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Rust: exercise of employees and names

To start, I have some general tips. Run your code through rustfmt to get consistent formatting and make code easier to read. Run your code through clippy to get tips on common mistakes (clippy had ...
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Rust Torrent Parser

For deserialization, its a lost easier if you use serde. Then you can do something like this: ...
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