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

### Introduction

In the previous lesson, we covered type conversions. Now, we will move on to discuss how, if you have a value that you want to convert to another or a specific type (in case of `interface{}`), you can use __type assertion__.
A type assertion takes a value and tries to create another version in
the specified explicit type.

### Examples

In the example below, the `timeMap` function takes a value
and if it can be asserted as a map of `interfaces{}` keyed by strings,
then it injects a new entry called "updated_at" with the current time
value.

# Introduction

In the previous lesson, we covered type conversions. Now, we will move on to discuss how, if you have a value that you want to convert to another or a specific type (in case of `interface{}`), you can use __type assertion__.
A type assertion takes a value and tries to create another version in
the specified explicit type.

# Examples

In the example below, the `timeMap` function takes a value
and if it can be asserted as a map of `interfaces{}` keyed by strings,
then it injects a new entry called "updated_at" with the current time
value.

This lesson explains converting the type of a given value to another specific value using examples

The Basics

Types

Collection Types

Control flow

Methods

Interfaces

Concurrency

Get Setup

Online Coding Challenges

Tips & Tricks

Type Assertion

Introduction