Practical Go Lessons

Dive into a comprehensive exploration of the Go programming language, covering fundamental concepts, advanced features, and practical applications. Learn about programming basics, Go-specific syntax, development environment setup, data types, control structures, functions, packages, interfaces, modules, testing, concurrency, HTTP servers, databases, logging, profiling, and more. Gain hands-on experience through practical lessons, build real-world applications, and master best practices for efficient Go development.

• 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