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notes and info about getting started with golang

Introduction to the Go Programming Language

Notes and info about getting started with Go.

Chapter One Getting Set Up

  • Installing Go for your environment
  • Understanding the GOPATH environment variable
  • Setting up and verifying your workspace
  • Some common Go commands that you should know
  • Installing some common tools
  • Create your first program
  • Create the first test for your program
  • Reading documentation
  • IDEs and Editor Plugins for Go
  • Optional Homework: A Tour of Go

Chapter Two basic syntax

  • Exported Names
  • Variables and infferred types
  • Functions and return values
  • Variables and infferred types
  • The defer keyword
  • Structs
  • encoding (json)
  • Create your first REST API server
  • Write an integration test for the web server

Chapter Three Collections

  • Maps
  • Slices
  • Adding some new endpoints
  • Creating a cli to interact with our server

Chapter four

  • More on structs
    • method recievers
    • Pointers recievers vs Value recievers
  • Interfaces
  • errors

Chapter five

  • A little more on structs
    • embedding (object composition)
  • Dependencies
    • vendoring
    • using a dependency manger (glide)
  • Teaser for Concurrency

Chapter six

  • Concurrency
    • go routines
    • chanels
    • select
    • locks
    • wait groups