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

# Definition 
A goroutine is a lightweight thread managed by the Go runtime. Goroutines can be functions or methods that run concurrently with other functions or methods

The evaluation of `f`, `x`, `y`, and `z` happens in the current goroutine, and the execution of `f` happens in the new goroutine.

Goroutines run in the same address space, so access to shared memory must be **synchronized**​​. The [sync](http://golang.org/pkg/sync/) package provides useful primitives, although you won't need them much in Go as there are other primitives.

# Example

This lesson introduces the concept of goroutines, their definition, and gives an example.

The Basics

Types

Collection Types

Control flow

Methods

Interfaces

Concurrency

Get Setup

Online Coding Challenges

Tips & Tricks

Goroutines

Definition