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Go Essentials: Concurrency, Connectivity, and High-Performance Apps

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Write more efficient, reliable applications with Go. Learn Go basics, including programming with Go basic types, structs and functions, concurrency, and networking.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Go for modern applications
  • What you should know
1. Getting Started
  • Setting up your work environment
  • Anatomy of a Go program
  • The Go tool
2. Go Basics
  • Numbers and assignments
  • Conditionals
  • For loops
  • Challenge: FizzBuzz
  • Solution: FizzBuzz
  • Strings
  • Challenge: Even-ended numbers
  • Solution: Even-ended numbers
  • Slices
  • Challenge: Find the maximal value
  • Solution: Find the maximal value
  • Maps
  • Challenge: Maps
  • Solution: Maps
3. Functions
  • Defining a function
  • Parameter passing
  • Error return
  • Defer
  • Challenge: Write a function
  • Solution: Write a function
4. Object-Oriented
  • Structs
  • Methods
  • Creating structs with New function
  • Challenge: Structs
  • Solution: Structs
  • Interfaces
  • Challenge: Interfaces
  • Solution: Interfaces
  • Generics
5. Error Handling
  • pkg/errors
  • Panic and recover
  • Challenge: Server kill
  • Solution: Server kill
6. Concurrency
  • Goroutines
  • Channels
  • Challenge: Channels
  • Solution: Channels
  • Select
  • Context
  • Challenge: Download size
  • Solution: Download size
7. Project Management
  • Manage requirements
  • Testing
  • testify
  • Challenge: Testing
  • Solution: Testing
  • Benchmarking and profiling
8. Networking
  • JSON
  • HTTP calls
  • Timeouts & Size Limit
  • Challenge: Call the GitHub API
  • Solution: Call the GitHub API
  • HTTP server
  • Challenge: Key-value database
  • Solution: Key-value database
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Miki Tebeka

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