Go is a language initially developed at Google and rapidly becoming the native language for the cloud and distributed computing. This will be a 1 hour boot camp (or longer) where we go through a Go install, followed by 3 short programs to write in go that would include:
The major components involved are:
Give a brief overiew of why Go was created, who is using it, and some language overview.
This is a quick start guide to show you how to install Go, and write your first Hello World program.
This tutorial will show you how to create a basic command line program that accepts arguments.
Quickly show you how easy it is to compile a single static binary for distribution, as well as cross compiling.
Learn how to spin up a web server and how to route incoming requests.
See a couple of basic concurrency patterns.
The following is a set of tasks that can be done prior to showing up for the workshop. We will also do this in class if anyone has not completed it. However, the more attendees that complete this ahead of time the more time we have to cover additional training material.
Please refer to the installing go document, or feel free to do this step during the bootcamp.
Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/Updates https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-go
Sublime http://www.sublimetext.com/ https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime http://www.wolfe.id.au/2015/03/05/using-sublime-text-for-go-development/
VIM http://www.vim.org/download.php http://farazdagi.com/blog/2015/vim-as-golang-ide/
Atom https://atom.io/ https://github.com/joefitzgerald/go-plus
LiteIDE http://sourceforge.net/projects/liteide/files/
Emacs https://github.com/creack/dotfiles
For a full list of editors, see the wiki: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/IDEsAndTextEditorPlugins
While many of the examples can be done using the online playground (http://play.golang.org), some may find it easier to complete them with their local editor. To do so, you will want to load the training material locally to your machine. From a command prompt, issue the following commands:
mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/corylanou
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/corylanou
git clone https://github.com/corylanou/go-1-hour-boot-camp.gitNOTE: This assumes you have Git installed. If you don’t, you can find the installation instructions here: https://git-scm.com/
This is a repo for a one hour boot camp. I give this talk rather frequently, so I update the date and location I deliver it at, and bug fixes.
You can view the presentation here: http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/corylanou/go-1-hour-boot-camp/presentation.slide#1
Cory LaNou a full stack technologist who has specialized in start-ups for the last 17 years. Cory is part of the Core engineering team that contributes to InfluxDB, a highly scalable, distributed time series database written in Go. Cory has created and led numerous Go workshops and training courses. He has several published online articles related to Go. Cory also helps lead and organizer several community technology meetups and mentors new developers.