7 chapters · 50 sections. Three parallel reader tracks — pick yours.
You already think in pointers, malloc, and RAII. Prose stays terse, leans on what you know, and points out where Rust's rules are stricter than yours.
Indirection, ownership, and the heap are spelled out before they're used. No prior C in your background assumed; a working systems-level mental model built up section by section.
No programming background assumed. Concepts like "the heap", "a pointer", "owning a value", and "scope" are introduced one at a time, in plain language, with everyday analogies. Slower but solid.