Learning Go

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:39:00 +0000

Learning Go is a book that teaches you Go. It includes exercises (and solutions) to help put your new knowledge to the test.

Learning Go

Sun, 01 Jun 2014 08:33:00 +0000

“Learning Go” is a book that gives an introduction into the Go language of Google. It is licensed under a copy-left license. The book currently consists out +/- 120 (A4 sized) pages and the following chapters:

Introduction
Show how to install Go and details the lineage of the language Go.
Basics
Types, variables and control structures.
Functions
How to make and use functions.
Packages
Functions and data is grouped together in packages. Here you will see how to make your own package. How to unit test your package is also described.
Beyond the basics
Learn how to create your own data types and define function on them (called methods in Go).
Interfaces
Go does not support Object Orientation in the traditional sense. In Go the central concept is interfaces.
Concurrency
With the go keyword function can be started in separate routines (called goroutines). Communication with those goroutines is done via channels.
Communication
How to create/read/write from and to files. And how to do networking.

Each chapter concludes with a number of exercises (and answers) to may help you to get some hands on experience. Currently it has more than 30 exercises.

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Learning Go

Learning Go