Introduction to Go Course | DevelopIntelligence

Course Summary

The Introduction to Go training course is project based: building a shared “game” server that students can use to interact with each other via defined APIs. There is also a strong “code reading” portion, whereby students can check their understanding of GoLang by reading and modifying open source GoLang projects. This course will explore concurrency (by diving into more concurrency patterns) and the standard library, as well as providing more coding activities using popular Go libraries/frameworks (such as logging and microservices).

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:

Be able to write idiomatic Go code according to its conventions
Be able to read and understand code from real world open source Go projects
Know how to use the basic Go tools, including those for dependency management
Use Go’s networking and serialization support to create HTTP & JSON APIs
Write and run tests using Go’s testing tools
Use Go’s goroutines and channels to write safe, concurrent code
Write reliable code using Go errors

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What You'll Learn

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

Introduction
- Goals and philosophy of Go
- Playing with Go in the “playground” (play.golang.org)
- Finding and reading Go documentation (golang.org/pkg)
Variables and Types
- Defining variables with types
- Type inference
- Constants
- Naming conventions
- Using Printf to display variables
- Variable scope
Structs
- Collection of properties
- Naming conventions
Packages and Importing
- package statement
- Naming conventions
- import statement
- Common packages: overview the Go Standard Library
Development Environment
- Setting up your development environment
- Download Go
- Set up GOPATH
- Choose your editor
- Build and run the Go example
- Remember the “main” package
- File organization: what goes where?
Functions, Parameters and Return Values
- Defining functions
- Declaring parameter types
- Pointers and mutability of parameters
- Returning errors
Control and Looping Structures
- If, For, and Switch basics
Strings, Arrays, and Maps
- String finding and manipulation
- Defining and using Arrays
- Using Slices for more power
- Maps: Go’s dictionary structure
- For loops with Ranges
Methods
- Go does not have classes
- Method is a function associated with a type
- More on pointers
- Method receivers
Interfaces
- Implicitly defined
- “Duck typed”
- Composition
I/O Library
- Reading from standard input
- Writing to standard output and errors
- Using Readers and Writers
Concurrency
- Go’s concurrency approach
- Goroutines: Go’s lightweight managed thread
- Channels: sending typed items between goroutines
- Channel processing and blocking
- Range, Select, buffering
HTTP & JSON
- The net/http and encoding libraries
- Build a client to connect to GitHub
- Write a web server to serve static documents
- Add a JSON API to the web server

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Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.

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