Introduction to GoLang

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