Exploring and Mastering the Full Go Featureset

Gain insights into Go's unique features, delve into advanced memory handling, strings, loops, and goroutines. Discover how to handle multidimensional datasets and protect against variable bugs.

Intermediate

52 Lessons

9h 5min

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into Go's unique features, delve into advanced memory handling, strings, loops, and goroutines. Discover how to handle multidimensional datasets and protect against variable bugs.

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This course includes

118 Playgrounds

7 Quizzes

This course includes

118 Playgrounds

7 Quizzes

Course Overview

Go is a popular language known for its simplicity. For developers who lack a deep knowledge of its features, it's a great time to pick up the Go language. The differences between Go and other popular programming languages can lead to hours of Google for the newer software engineer. Mastering these surprising, sometimes delightful, sometimes frustrating features can be the difference between time spent on debugging and time spent on deployment. In this course, you will go deeper than an introductory book to...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Variable Shadowing In Go

Interfaces In Go

Inheritance In Go

Block Scope In Golang

What You'll Learn

Learn the more unusual features of Go.

Learn to write go code with minimum bugs

Learn deeper aspects of how things are done in Go.

What You'll Learn

Learn the more unusual features of Go.

Course Content

Basics of Go

Get familiar with Go's simplicity, code formatting, and strict import rules to enhance development.

Data Types

Unpack the core of Go data types, variables, constants, and shadowing intricacies.

Exercise: Variable Shadowing

Solution: Variable Shadowing

Quiz: Data Types

Collection Types

Master the steps to efficiently handle Go's collection types, including slices, arrays, maps, and strings.

Slices and Arrays

Slices and Arrays Operations

Nil Slices

Exercise: Multidimensional Array

Solution: Multidimensional Array

Exercise: Memory Handling

Solution: Memory Handling

Strings

Unicode and UTF-8 strings

Exercise: Reverse Word

Solution: Reverse Word

Maps

Maps as Pointers

Maps Implementation

Data Races and sync.Map

Exercise: Map Access

Solution: Map Access

Quiz: Collection Types

Control Structures

Break down the steps to effectively manage loops, control flow, and debugging in Go.

Quiz: Control Structures

Functions, Goroutines and Interfaces

Map out the steps for using defer, goroutines, interfaces and implementing required solutions.

Functions

Goroutines

Interfaces

Interfaces Implementation

Exercise: Goroutines

Solution: Goroutines

Quiz: Goroutines and Interfaces

Inheritance and Equality

5 Lessons

Follow the process of Go's type embedding, equality checks, and struct comparisons.

Memory and Time

4 Lessons

Master the steps to managing memory, logging effectively, and handling time zones in Go.

Wrap Up!

1 Lesson

Get familiar with valuable Go skills to avoid common pitfalls and enhance efficiency.

Course Author

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Anthony Walker

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Evan Dunbar

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Carlos Matias La Borde

Software Developer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

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Eric Downs

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Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

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