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Practical Go Lessons

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This course introduces Go programming from environment setup and first applications through types, packages, modules, testing, data structures, HTTP clients and servers, concurrency, profiling, and generics.

Syllabus

  • Programming A Computer
  • The Go Language
  • The terminal
  • Setup your dev environment
  • First Go Application
  • Binary and Decimal
  • Hexadecimal, octal, ASCII, UTF8, Unicode, Runes
  • Variables, constants and basic types
  • Control Statements
  • Functions
  • Packages and imports
  • Package Initialization
  • Types
  • Methods
  • Pointer type
  • Interfaces
  • Go modules
  • Go Module Proxies
  • Unit Tests
  • Arrays
  • Slices
  • Maps
  • Errors
  • Anonymous functions & closures
  • JSON and XML
  • Basic HTTP Server
  • Enum, Iota & Bitmask
  • Dates and time
  • Data storage files and databases
  • Concurrency
  • Logging
  • Templates
  • Application Configuration
  • Benchmarks
  • Build an HTTP Client
  • Program Profiling
  • Context
  • Generics
  • An object oriented programming language ?
  • Upgrading or Downgrading Go
  • Design Recommendations
  • Cheatsheet

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