Introduction to GoLang Course | DevelopIntelligence

Course Summary

The Introduction to GoLang training course is designed to demonstrate how to build a shared "game" server for interaction via defined APIs.

The course begins by providing a foundation of GoLang by reading and modifying open source GoLang projects. Next, it explores concurrency and the standard library by assessing patterns. The course concludes by providing activities using popular GoLang libraries/frameworks.

Purpose

Teach developers how to use the Go language.

Audience

Software engineers wanting to learn Go.

Role

Software Developer

Skill Level

Introduction

Style

Hack-a-thon - Learning Spikes - Workshops

Duration

3 Days

Related Technologies

GoLang

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Productivity Objectives:

Examine idiomatic Go code according to its conventions
Understand code from real world open source GoLang projects
Know how to use the basic GoLang tools, including those for dependency management
Analyze GoLang’s networking and serialization support to create HTTP & JSON APIs
Run tests using GoLang’s testing tools
Utilize GoLang’s goroutines and channels to write safe, concurrent code
Write reliable code using GoLang errors

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What You'll Learn

In the Introduction to GoLang training course, you'll learn:

Introduction
- Understand Goals and philosophy of GoLang
- Interact with GoLang in the “playground” (play.golang.org)
- Find and read GoLang documentation (golang.org/pkg)
Variables and Types
- Define variables with types
- Type inference
- Constants
- Naming conventions
- Utilize Printf to display variables
- Variable scope
Structs
- Property collections
- Naming conventions
Packages and Importing
- Package statement
- Name conventions
- Import statement
- Overview of the Go Standard Library
Development Environment
- Set up your development environment
- Download Go
- Set up GOPATH
- Choose your editor
- Build and run the Go example
- Remember the “main” package
- Organize files
Functions, Parameters and Return Values
- Define functions
- Declare parameter types
- Execute pointers and mutability of parameters
- Return errors
Control and Looping Structures
- If, For, and Switch basics
Strings, Arrays, and Maps
- String finding and manipulation
- Define and use Arrays
- Use Slices for more power
- Maps: Go’s dictionary structure
- For loops with Ranges
Methods
- Method is a function associated with a type
- Method receivers
Interfaces
- Implicitly defined
- “Duck typed”
- Composition
I/O Library
- Read from standard input
- Write to standard output and errors
- Use Readers and Writers
Concurrency
- GoLang’s concurrency approach
- Goroutines: GoLang’s lightweight managed thread
- Channels: sending typed items between goroutines
- Channel processing and blocking
- Range, Select, buffering
HTTP & JSON
- Encode libraries
- Build a client to connect to GitHub
- Write a web server to serve static documents
- Add a JSON API to the web server