diff --git a/00_Utilities/mardown_todo_rust/Cargo.toml b/00_Utilities/mardown_todo_rust/Cargo.toml
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+[package]
+name = "mardown_todo_rust"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
+
+# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+
+[dependencies]
diff --git a/00_Utilities/mardown_todo_rust/src/main.rs b/00_Utilities/mardown_todo_rust/src/main.rs
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+use std::fs::{self, DirEntry, ReadDir, metadata};
+use std::fs::{File, OpenOptions};
+use std::io;
+use std::io::prelude::*;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+
+
+//DATA
+const ROOT_DIR: &str = "../../";
+const LANGUAGES: [(&str,&str); 9] = [ //first element of tuple is the language name, second element is the file extension
+    ("csharp", "cs"),
+    ("java", "java"),
+    ("javascript", "html"),
+    ("pascal", "pas"),
+    ("perl", "pl"),
+    ("python", "py"),
+    ("ruby", "rb"),
+    ("rust", "rs"),
+    ("vbnet", "vb")
+];
+const INGORE: [&str;4] = ["../../.git","../../.vscode","../../00_Utilities","../../buildJvm"]; //folders to ignore
+
+fn main() {
+    //DATA
+    let langs_to_print: Vec<&str>;
+    let mut root_folders:Vec<_>;
+
+    //print language - extension table
+    print_lang_extension_table();
+
+    //prompt user to input the file extensions of the languages they want the todo-lists for printed to console
+    println!("\na todo list with all the languages will be put into todo-list.md");
+    println!("enter the file extensions from the table above for the languages you want a todo-list printed to standard output");
+    println!("File extensions: (separated by spaces)");
+    let mut raw_input = String::new();
+    io::stdin().read_line(&mut raw_input).expect("Failed to read input");
+    //parse input for valid languages, store them in langs_to_print
+    let raw_input = raw_input.as_str().trim().chars().filter(|c| c.is_ascii_alphabetic() || c.is_whitespace()).collect::<String>();//filter out everything but ascii letters and spaces
+    langs_to_print =  raw_input.split(' ')//create an iterator with all the words
+    .filter(|s| LANGUAGES.iter().any(|tup| tup.1.eq_ignore_ascii_case(*s))) //filter out words that aren't valid extensions (in languages)
+    .collect(); //collect words into vector
+    println!("\nwill print: {:?}", langs_to_print);
+
+    //get all folders in ROOT_DIR
+    match fs::read_dir(ROOT_DIR) {
+        Err(why) => {
+            println!("! {:?}", why.kind());
+            panic!("error");
+        },
+        Ok(paths) => {
+            root_folders = Vec::new();
+            for path in paths {
+                let full_path = path.unwrap().path();
+                if metadata(&full_path).unwrap().is_dir() {
+                    println!("> {:?}", full_path);
+                    root_folders.push(full_path);
+                }
+            }
+        },
+    }
+
+    //for all folders, search for the languages and extensions
+    /*
+    // Read the contents of a directory, returns `io::Result<Vec<Path>>`
+    match fs::read_dir(ROOT_DIR) {
+        Err(why) => println!("! {:?}", why.kind()),
+        Ok(paths) => for path in paths {
+            println!("> {:?}", path.unwrap().path());
+        },
+    }
+    */
+}
+
+/**
+ * print language - extension table
+ */
+fn print_lang_extension_table() {
+    println!("LANGUAGE\tFILE EXTENSION");
+    println!("========\t==============");
+    for tup in LANGUAGES.iter() {
+        match tup.0 {
+            "javascript" => println!("{}\t{}", tup.0,tup.1), //long ones
+            _ => println!("{}\t\t{}", tup.0,tup.1),
+        };
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * returns a vector containing paths to all files in path and subdirectories of path
+ */
+fn list_files(path: &Path) -> Vec<PathBuf> {
+    let mut vec = Vec::new();
+    _list_files(&mut vec,&path);
+    vec
+}
+fn _list_files(vec: &mut Vec<PathBuf>, path: &Path) {
+    if metadata(&path).unwrap().is_dir() {
+        let paths = fs::read_dir(&path).unwrap();
+        for path_result in paths {
+            let full_path = path_result.unwrap().path();
+            if metadata(&full_path).unwrap().is_dir() {
+                _list_files(vec, &full_path);
+            } else {
+                vec.push(full_path);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+