Learning Go

Introduces the tools and skills used in a Go workflow—including Go Playground, an online tool that takes Go development off the desktop.

Introduction

• Develop basic programs with Go
• What you need to know
• Explore new code challenges on CoderPad

1. Getting Started

• Go's essential characteristics
• Explore basic Go syntax
• Experiment with the Go Playground
• Install Go on macOS
• Install Go on Windows
• Choose an IDE for Go programming
• Install and configure Visual Studio Code
• Get the exercise files from GitHub
• Create a Hello World application

2. Manage Simple Variable Values

• Explore Go's variable types
• Declare and initialize variables
• Get input from the console
• Convert string inputs to other types
• Use math operators
• Use the math package
• Work with dates and times
• Solution: Create a simple calculator app

3. Manage Complex Types and Collections

• How memory is allocated and managed
• Reference values with pointers
• Store ordered values in arrays
• Manage ordered values in slices
• Store unordered values in maps
• Group related values in structs
• Solution: Convert a slice of strings to a map

4. Manage Program Flow

• Program conditional logic
• Evaluate expressions with switch statements
• Create loops with for statements
• Solution: Calculate the value of a shopping cart

5. Create Reusable Code

• Define and call functions
• Define functions as methods of custom types
• Solution: Create a more advanced calculator app

6. Work with Files and the Web

• Write and read local text files
• Read a text file from the web
• Parse JSON-formatted text
• Solution: Read a shopping cart from JSON

Conclusion

• Next steps