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Learn Go in 3 Hours [Video]
This is the code repository for Learn Go in 3 Hours [Video], published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the video course from start to finish.
About the Video Course
Go is a compiled, statically typed language in the tradition of Algol and C, with garbage collection, limited structural typing, memory safety features, and CSP-style concurrent programming features added. More and more developers are interested in learning Go. It was the language of the year on TIOBE in 2016 and is at the top of the list of languages that developers want to learn next. This course will teach you how to program in Go, building on your existing knowledge of programming languages. It starts by introducing familiar features before moving on to the more unique features that have earned Go its reputation as the language of the cloud. You will learn how to build a completely functional application server in under two dozen lines of code. Then, you'll master structuring and organizing your code, implementing the procedural control structures of every C-inspired language, and breaking your code into separate functions. Towards the end of the course, you'll learn how to create your own packages and import them. You'll also explore Go's approach to error handling, Object-Oriented Programming, and concurrency. By the end of the course, you'll be ready to start writing your own Go projects.
What You Will Learn
- Effective ways to apply functional programming in Go
- Write safe, error-resistant concurrent code
- Use high-order functions
- Build immutable data structures
- Apply popular functional design patterns in Go
- Use functional Go in toy projects
- Easily test your functional Go code
- Use streams, closures, and monads to build functional code
Instructions and Navigation
Assumed Knowledge
To fully benefit from the coverage included in this course, you will need:
This course is for developers who want to extend their capabilities and build awesome and efficient applications with Go. Programming knowledge is required but no knowledge of Go is needed.
Technical Requirements
This course has the following software requirements:
Operating system: Linux, macOS 10.x, Windows
Browser: Chrome, Firefox, Safari
Visual Studio Code, latest version (https://code.visualstudio.com/)
Go 1.9 or later installed (https://golang.org/dl/)
Account on Github (recommended)
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