Go Bootcamp

Everything you need to know to get started with Go.

Matt Aimonetti

Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1 Intro

• • 1.1 Objectives

  • • 1.1.1 Knowledge

    • 1.1.2 Skills

    • 1.1.3 Attitudes

• Chapter 2 The Basics

• • 2.1 Variables & inferred typing

  • 2.2 Constants

  • 2.3 Printing Constants and Variables

  • 2.4 Packages and imports

  • 2.5 Code location

  • 2.6 Exported names

  • 2.7 Functions, signature, return values, named results

  • 2.8 Pointers

  • 2.9 Mutability

• Chapter 3 Types

• • 3.1 Basic types

  • 3.2 Type conversion

  • 3.3 Type assertion

  • 3.4 Structs

  • 3.5 Initializing

  • 3.6 Composition vs inheritance

  • 3.7 Exercise

  • • 3.7.1 Solution

• Chapter 4 Collection Types

• • 4.1 Arrays

  • • 4.1.1 Printing arrays

    • 4.1.2 Multi-dimensional arrays

  • 4.2 Slices

  • • 4.2.1 Slicing a slice

    • 4.2.2 Making slices

    • 4.2.3 Appending to a slice

    • 4.2.4 Length

    • 4.2.5 Nil slices

    • 4.2.6 Resources

  • 4.3 Range

  • • 4.3.1 Break & continue

    • 4.3.2 Range and maps

    • 4.3.3 Exercise

    • 4.3.4 Solution

  • 4.4 Maps

  • • 4.4.1 Mutating maps

    • 4.4.2 Resources

    • 4.4.3 Exercise

    • 4.4.4 Solution

• Chapter 5 Control flow

• • 5.1 If statement

  • 5.2 For Loop

  • 5.3 Switch case statement

  • 5.4 Exercise

  • 5.5 Solution

• Chapter 6 Methods

• • 6.1 Code organization

  • 6.2 Type aliasing

  • 6.3 Method receivers

• Chapter 7 Interfaces

• • 7.1 Interfaces are satisfied implicitly

  • 7.2 Errors

  • 7.3 Exercise: Errors

  • • 7.3.1 Solution

• Chapter 8 Concurrency

• • 8.1 Goroutines

  • 8.2 Channels

  • • 8.2.1 Buffered channels

  • 8.3 Range and close

  • 8.4 Select

  • • 8.4.1 Default case

    • 8.4.2 Timeout

  • 8.5 Exercise: Equivalent Binary Trees

  • • 8.5.1 Solution

• Chapter 9 Get Setup

• • 9.1 OS X

  • • 9.1.1 Setup your paths

    • 9.1.2 Install mercurial and bazaar

  • 9.2 Windows

  • 9.3 Linux

  • 9.4 Extras

• Chapter 10 Get Your Feet Wet

• Chapter 11 Tips and Tricks

• • 11.1 140 char tips

  • 11.2 Alternate Ways to Import Packages

  • 11.3 goimports

  • 11.4 Organization

  • 11.5 Custom Constructors

  • 11.6 Breaking down code in packages

  • 11.7 Sets

  • 11.8 Dependency package management

  • 11.9 Using errors

  • 11.10 Quick look at some compiler’s optimizations

  • 11.11 Expvar

  • 11.12 Set the build id using git’s SHA

  • 11.13 How to see what packages my app imports

  • 11.14 Iota: Elegant Constants

  • • 11.14.1 Auto Increment

    • 11.14.2 Custom Types

• Chapter 12 Exercises

Preface

Last updated: 2016/07/28 09:37:06

Cover art by Erick Zelaya sponsored by Ardan Studios

The Gopher character on the cover is based on the Go mascot designed by Renée French and copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

This book is a companion book to the Go Bootcamp event organized for the first time in Santa Monica CA in March 2014.

You don’t need to install Go to read this book and follow along. This book was designed to delay the setup process and let you evaluate Go without having to go through the installation process. All examples and solutions are available online in an environment allowing you to execute code right in the browser

Reference : http://www.golangbootcamp.com/book