Explore Go programming, understanding its concurrency advantages over traditional languages. Gain insights into why Go is crucial as Moore’s Law fades, suitable for beginners.

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As Moore’s Law is reaching the end of its lifecycle, the need for concurrency is rising and consequently, the need for a programming language that enables effective implementation of concurrent programs is rising too. For this reason, Go has become one of the most popular languages in recent times. This course aims to provide a detailed introduction to Go for beginners. Furthermore, it also articulates how Go is different from traditional programming languages that programmers are accustomed to in order to acquaint programmers getting ready to delve into Go with the language too.

An Introduction to Programming in Go

# Methods in Go
While technically Go isn't an [Object Oriented Programming
language](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming),
types and methods allow for an object-oriented style of programming.
The big difference is that Go does not support type inheritance (mechanism of acquiring the features and behaviours of a class by another class) but
instead has a concept of [interface](https://www.educative.io/courses/introduction-to-programming-in-go/introduction/draft).

In this chapter, we will focus on Go's use of methods and interfaces.

>Note: A frequently asked question is "what is the difference between
a function and a method". A method is a function that has a defined
receiver, in OOP terms, a method is a function on an instance of an
object.

Go does **not** have classes. However, you can define methods on struct types.

The *method receiver* appears in its own argument list between the `func` keyword and the method name. Here is an example with a `User` struct containing two fields: `FirstName` and `LastName` of string type.

# Example​

This lesson explains how methods and interfaces in Go work using an example

The Basics

Types

Collection Types

Control flow

Methods

Interfaces

Concurrency

Get Setup

Online Coding Challenges

Tips & Tricks

Introduction

Methods in Go