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

# Composition as an Alternative to Inheritance

Coming from an [OOP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) background a lot of us are used to inheritance, something that isn't supported by Go.
Instead you have to think in terms of _composition_ and _interfaces_. In the previous lessons, we learnt about structs in Go, and that is what we will be using for composition.

The Go team wrote a [short but good segment](http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#embedding) on this topic.

# Composition

Composition (or embedding) is a well understood concept for most OOP programmers and Go supports it,
here is an example of the problem it's solving:

This explains details of Composition in Go and how it can be used as an alternative to Inheritance in Go.

The Basics

Types

Collection Types

Control flow

Methods

Interfaces

Concurrency

Get Setup

Online Coding Challenges

Tips & Tricks

Composition vs Inheritance

Composition as an Alternative to Inheritance

Composition