Let's learn Go!

Hey, you! Yes, you!

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See the little gopher? Isn’t it cute? Yes it is! He is the mascot of the Go programming language —Go, what? Why Go, the programming language of course!

This website is an online book that aims to introduce people to this awesome language. And if you, actually, stumbled upon it while looking for real gophers, let me still invite you to read it and learn something cool! C’mon, go-pher it!

Welcome aboard

In this part, we will learn the very basic things about Go. The basic syntax for programs, how to declare variables, pointers and how to use basic control structures.

Let’s combine stuff

Now, it’s time to play like children with Legos. Technical Legos. “Tegos”? ;) We use primitive data types and basic control structures, that we saw in the previous part, to build composite types and functions.

And be smart and awesome

We will learn smarter and nicer things about functions, and will have fun writing code to represent and solve real world problems (well... real as in objects. — You know what I mean)

Like a maestro with his orchestra

Why think of programs as a sequential ballade executed by a single musician? We can do better by making every musician do what he/she has to do, and make them communicate with one another.
  • Introduction to concurrency with Go
  • Sharing and Caring (Communicating with channels)
  • Channels on steroids
  • ...

And still be open and friendly

This is the goal of this humble work. I hope that you’ll enjoy reading it, and I’d love to hear back from you! You can post issues, typos and suggestions on the github repository