The Way to Go

Gain insights into Go's core constructs, advanced concepts like error-handling and networking, and learn efficient programming techniques and common pitfalls in this popular language.

Intermediate

255 Lessons

25h

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into Go's core constructs, advanced concepts like error-handling and networking, and learn efficient programming techniques and common pitfalls in this popular language.

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19 Challenges

11 Quizzes

Course Overview

Go (sometimes called Golang) is one of the most popular languages today, and is a key part of many enterprise tech stacks. Many developers prefer Go to other languages like C++ and Scala because of its memory management model which allows for easier concurrency. In this course, you will learn the core constructs and techniques of the language. After going through the basics, you will then learn more advanced Go concepts like error-handling, networking, and templating. You'll learn how to program efficientl...Show More

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Course Content

Origin, Context and Popularity of GO

Get familiar with Go's origins, purpose, key features, and its rise in popularity.

Origin and Evolution of Go

Reasons for Developing Go

Characteristics of Go

Test Yourself

Basic Constructs and Elementary Data Types

Grasp the fundamentals of Go's basic constructs, data types, pointers, and essential operations.

Filenames, Keywords and Identifiers

Import Functionality

Overview of Functions

Overview of Data Types

Challenge: Temperature Conversion

Solution Review: Temperature Conversion

Strings

Strings and strconv Package

Times and Dates

Pointers

Quiz: Deduce the Outputs

Control Structures

Work your way through decision-making, error handling, looping constructs, and flow control in Go.

The if-else Construct

Testing for Errors on Functions

The switch-case Construct

Challenge: Season of a Month

Solution Review: Season of a Month

The for Construct

The for range Construct

Break and Continue

Use of Labels - goto

Exercise: Deduce the Outputs

Functions

Enhance your skills in Go's functions, including recursion, closures, and optimization techniques.

Introduction to Functions

Parameters and Return Values

Challenge: Multiple Return Values

Solution Review: Multiple Return Values

Challenge: Variable Number of Arguments

Solution Review: Variable Number of Arguments

Defer and Tracing

Built-in Functions

Recursive Functions

Challenge: Compute Factorial of a Number

Solution Review: Compute Factorial of a Number

Higher-Order Functions

Challenge: Filter Even and Odd Numbers

Solution Review: Filter Even and Odd Numbers

Closures

Functions as Return Variables

Debugging with Closures

Optimizing Programs

Quiz: Deduce the Outputs

Arrays and Slices

Explore Go arrays, slices, initialization, manipulation, and problem-solving techniques.

Declaration and Initialization

Array Literals and Parameters

Challenge: Filling Array with Loop Counter

Solution Review: Filling Array with Loop Counter

Challenge: Finding Fibonacci Numbers with Array

Solution Review: Finding Fibonacci Numbers with Array

Slices

Slices with Functions

Challenge: Finding Fibonacci Numbers with Slices

Solution Review: Finding Fibonacci Numbers with Slices

Multidimensionality

Bytes and Slices

The for-range Construct

Reslicing

Copying and Appending Slices

Challenge: Magnify a Slice

Solution Review: Magnify a Slice

Challenge: Inserting Slice in a Slice

Solution Review: Inserting Slice in a Slice

Challenge: Filtering with Higher-Order Functions

Solution Review: Filtering with Higher-Order Functions

Applying Strings, Arrays and Slices

Challenge: Bubble Sort the Slice

Solution Review: Bubble Sort the Slice

Challenge: Reverse a String

Solution Review: Reverse a String

Quiz: Deduce the Outputs

Maps

8 Lessons

Focus on using key-value pairs in maps, iterating, checking existence, and practical examples.

Packages

12 Lessons

Build on using Go's standard library, custom packages, sync mechanisms, and external libraries.

Interfaces and Reflection

25 Lessons

Unpack the core of interfaces, reflection, type assertions, type switches, and generic programming in Go.

10.

Reading and Writing

23 Lessons

Examine reading and writing operations in Go, including file handling, data serialization, and user input.

11.

Error-Handling and Testing

13 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of Go's error-handling, testing practices, and performance optimization.

12.

Goroutines and Channels

29 Lessons

Deepen your knowledge of Go's concurrency through goroutines, channels, patterns, and synchronization.

13.

Networking, Templating and Web-Applications

15 Lessons

Focus on creating Go-based web applications, handling servers, and integrating cloud services.

14.

Common Go Pitfalls and Patterns

5 Lessons

Piece together the parts of common Go pitfalls and effective programming patterns.

15.

Performance Advices

5 Lessons

Sharpen your skills in optimizing Go performance with strings, structs, functions, goroutines, and memory management.

16.

Building a Complete Application

7 Lessons

Develop the URLShortener app "goto" with data storage, concurrency, persistent storage, and distributed architecture.

17.

Appendix

13 Lessons

Work your way through Go installation, workspace setup, debugging, and performance optimization tools.

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