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Solana Rust Client Course for VS Code

A local, exercise-based course for learning Solana client development in Rust. Its Rust CLI and test harness check exercises, while a VS Code extension displays lessons and controls in a course panel.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use it when you want a hands-on Rust course for Solana client workflows inside VS Code, with local exercise checks rather than lessons alone.

Who it is for

  • Learners practicing Solana client-side development with Rust.
  • Instructors or contributors considering adapting Markdown lessons and Rust exercise/test structures.

Documented uses

  • Study Solana client-side lessons beside the code being edited.
  • Practice Rust exercises covering keys, transfers, tokens, accounts, RPC and transaction workflows.
  • Check exercise work through a CLI runner and test harness.
  • Adapt existing lesson and exercise structures for a customized course, with appropriate modifications.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

  • The Rust CLI and test harness are the source of truth; the VS Code extension supplies the clickable lesson interface.
  • Surfpool is required by the listed setup, but only exercises needing local chain state start it, in offline mode.
  • Progress is stored in VS Code workspace storage; reset restores baseline exercise files and clears progress.
  • The course is identified as a development-version project.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Open the course panel and check an exercise

Read a lesson in VS Code, edit its Rust exercise and run the course check.

Before you start

  • VS Code
  • Rust toolchain with Cargo
  • Surfpool CLI installed and available on PATH
  • Recommended: rust-analyzer and Even Better TOML VS Code extensions

Steps

  1. Open the repository in VS Code and trust the workspace if prompted.

  2. Open the command palette, run Tasks: Run Task, and choose Course: Start Course UI.

  3. Open the Solana Course panel from the activity bar, read a lesson and edit TODOs in exercises/*/src/lib.rs.

  4. Click Check to run the matching exercise check.

Expected outcome

The course runner checks the selected exercise; exercises needing local chain state use offline Surfpool, while pure instruction-building and derivation exercises do not start it.

Guide limitations

  • The course is described as a development-version course.
  • Reset restores starter files and clears progress, and will overwrite work in exercises after confirmation.
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