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Go Brain Teasers

Explore fun brain teasers to hone your logic, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Gain insights into Go and practice to avoid future mistakes.

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Who knew puzzles could be fun? Puzzles and brain teasers are a great way to practice your critical thinking and improve your logic and problem-solving skills. This course provides a basic understanding of Go. The teasers in this course will help you practice what you already know and help avoid future mistakes.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Get familiar with the basic knowledge of Golang.

Learn how to avoid common mistakes.

Enhance your logic and problem-solving skills.

Increase your practical skills by solving multiple puzzles.

Get familiar with the basic knowledge of Golang.

Content

53 Lessons25 Quizzes

Before We Begin

2 Lessons

Get familiar with Go brain teasers to enhance problem-solving and programming skills.

Why This Course?

Course Structure

Puzzles

50 Lessons

Unpack the core of programming puzzles, focusing on logic, problem-solving, and Go.

Puzzle 1: A Number π

Puzzle 1 Explanation: Identifiers

Puzzle 2: Empty-handed

Puzzle 2 Explanation: Map Type

Puzzle 3: When in Kraków

Puzzle 3 Explanation: ASCII Encoding

Puzzle 4: I’ve Got Nothing

Puzzle 4 Explanation: Go Types

Puzzle 5: A Raw Diet

Puzzle 5 Explanation: Raw Strings

Puzzle 6: Are We There Yet?

Puzzle 6 Explanation: Timeout

Puzzle 7: Can Numbers Lie?

Puzzle 7 Explanation: NaN

Puzzle 8: Sleep Sort

Puzzle 8 Explanation: Closure

Puzzle 9: Just in Time

Puzzle 9 Explanation: Go Time API

Puzzle 10: A Simple Append

Puzzle 10 Explanation: Simple Append

Puzzle 11: What’s in a Log?

Puzzle 11 Explanation: Go Log

Puzzle 12: A Funky Number

Puzzle 12 Explanation: Go spec2

Puzzle 13: Free-range Integers

Puzzle 13 Explanation: Go Range

Puzzle 14: Multiple Personalities

Puzzle 14 Explanation: Short Variables

Puzzle 15: A Tale of Two Cities

Puzzle 15 Explanation: Length of Each Variable

Puzzle 16: What’s in a Channel?

Puzzle 16 Explanation: Channel Capacity

Puzzle 17: An **Int**eresting String

Puzzle 17 Explanation: String Conversion

Puzzle 18: A Job to Do

Puzzle 18 Explanation: Go Job

Puzzle 19: To Err or Not to Err

Puzzle 19 Explanation: Go Error

Puzzle 20: What’s in a String?

Puzzle 20 Explanation: Go Rune

Puzzle 21: A Double Take

Puzzle 21 Explanation: init Is Special

Puzzle 22: Count Me a Million

Puzzle 22 Explanation: Go Count

Puzzle 23: Who’s Next?

Puzzle 23 Explanation: Go Next

Puzzle 24: Fun with Flags

Puzzle 24 Explanation: Go Flag

Puzzle 25: You Have My Permission

Puzzle 25 Explanation: Go iota

Wrapping Up

1 Lessons

Explore enhancing your Go understanding and code quality with brain teasers.

Conclusion

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