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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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 learn the various features that make Go unique. You’ll learn how to protect against the bugs caused by poorly defined variables (and variable shadowing), how Go treats slicers and arrays similarly, and how to work with multidimensional datasets. You’ll also dive into memory handling, strings, loops, and goroutines.

This course will be most useful if you already have a basic understanding of Go and its syntax. By the end of the course, you’ll move from Go-familiar to Go-expert.

Exploring and Mastering the Full Go Featureset

You should always pass structs by reference in Go because otherwise they will be copied in memory which is slow.

You should always pass structs by value in Go, because that does not involve heap or garbage collector.

Which of the following statements is correct?

Which of the following statements is correct?

Which of the following functions exits in the whole application?

Which of the following functions exits in the whole application?

`time.LoadLocation` reads from a file every time it's called.

`time.LoadLocation` crashes the program if called too many times.

It's not a great idea to call `time.LoadLocation` thousands of times during application execution because:

It’s not a great idea to call <code>time.LoadLocation</code> thousands of times during application execution because:

Test your understanding of memory and time in Go.

Basics of Go

Data Types

Collection Types

Control Structures

Functions, Goroutines and Interfaces

Inheritance and Equality

Memory and Time

Wrap Up!

Quiz: Memory and Time