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

# Functions
When declaring functions, the type comes after the variable *name* in the inputs.

The return type(s) are then specified after the function name and inputs, before writing the definition. Functions can be defined to return any number of values and each of them are put here.

Given below is an example function definition:

This lesson discusses functions, return values, named results and signature

The Basics

Types

Collection Types

Control flow

Methods

Interfaces

Concurrency

Get Setup

Online Coding Challenges

Tips & Tricks

Functions and Return values

Functions