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

## Go and Pointers
Go has *pointers*, but no pointer arithmetic.
*Struct* fields can be accessed through a struct pointer. The indirection through the pointer is **transparent** (you can directly call fields and methods on a pointer).

Note that by *default* Go passes arguments by value (copying the
arguments), if you want to pass the arguments by reference, you need
to pass pointers (or use a structure using reference values like
[slices](https://www.educative.io/courses/introduction-to-programming-in-go/slices-in-go/) and [maps](https://www.educative.io/courses/introduction-to-programming-in-go/maps-in-go/).

To get the pointer of a value, use the `&` symbol in front of the
value; to dereference a
pointer, use the `*` symbol.

Methods are often defined on pointers and not values (although they can
be defined on both), so you will often store a pointer in a variable as
in the example below:

# Go and Pointers
Go has *pointers*, but no pointer arithmetic.
*Struct* fields can be accessed through a struct pointer. The indirection through the pointer is **transparent** (you can directly call fields and methods on a pointer).

Note that by *default* Go passes arguments by value (copying the
arguments), if you want to pass the arguments by reference, you need
to pass pointers (or use a structure using reference values like
[slices](https://www.educative.io/courses/introduction-to-programming-in-go/slices-in-go/) and [maps](https://www.educative.io/courses/introduction-to-programming-in-go/maps-in-go/).

To get the pointer of a value, use the `&` symbol in front of the
value; to dereference a
pointer, use the `*` symbol.

Methods are often defined on pointers and not values (although they can
be defined on both), so you will often store a pointer in a variable as
in the example below:

This lesson discusses pointers and how to pass them as arguments in GO

The Basics

Types

Collection Types

Control flow

Methods

Interfaces

Concurrency

Get Setup

Online Coding Challenges

Tips & Tricks

Pointers

Go and Pointers