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

# Unicode and UTF-8

Unicode and UTF-8 are hairy subjects.

Let’s have a quick recap of Unicode and UTF-8:
1. Unicode is an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts, by which each letter, digit,
or symbol is assigned a unique numeric value that applies across different platforms and programs. Essentially it’s a big table of "code points". It contains most (but not all) of the characters of all languages. Each code point is an index in that table which you can sometimes see specified with the U+ notation such as U+0041 for letter A.
2. Usually code point means a character, for instance, the Chinese character ⻯ (U+2EEF), but it can be a geometric shape or a character modifier (such as an umlaut for
letters like German ä, ö, and ü). For some reason, it can even be a poo icon (U+1F4A9).
3. UTF-8 is one of the ways (and the most common one) to encode elements of that big Unicode table into actual bytes that computers can work with.
4. A single Unicode code point can take between 1 and 4 bytes when encoded in UTF-8.
5. Numbers and Latin letters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) are encoded in 1 byte. Letters of many other languages will take more than 1 byte in UTF-8 encoding.

String Encoding

Unicode and UTF-8 strings

Basics of Go

Data Types

Collection Types

Control Structures

Functions, Goroutines and Interfaces

Inheritance and Equality

Memory and Time

Wrap Up!

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Unicode and UTF-8