Go is one of the most popular languages this year, and Go developers are among the highest paid in the world. Save yourself months of looking through documentation with this comprehensive introduction. You'll practice writing performant, idiomatic Go with these hands-on lessons and challenges.
Overview
Syllabus
- Variables
- Learn the basic syntax for declaring and using variables and why you should use Go in the first place
- Conditionals
- Use if/else statements to control the flow of your program
- Functions
- Learn about how functions behave
- Structs
- Idiomatically model data in Go using structs
- Interfaces
- Master one of Go's most powerful tools: the interface
- Errors
- Learn how Go uniquely handles errors
- Loops
- Practice various algorithms in Go
- Slices
- Learn about Go's take on ordered lists
- Maps
- Go has an answer to Python's sets and dictionaries, we call it a map
- Pointers
- Learn about pointers and their pitfalls
- Packages and Modules
- Learn how go projects are organized on your local machine
- Channels
- Master the #1 reason to use Go: its elegance of concurrent programming
- Mutexes
- Continue learning about concurrency with mutexes
- Generics
- Learn how Go approaches polymorphism with generics: a new feature added in 1.18
- Enums
- Go famously doesn't support proper enums, but we'll go over how Go developers solve the same kinds of problems with the tools they have.
- Quiz
- Learn about go-specific design patterns and fun language facts
Taught by
Lane Wagner, Allan, Dan, Matt, and Hunter
