Go Essential Training

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

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