This is an introduction in the language Go from Google.
The book currently consists out +/- 120 (A4 sized) pages and the following chapters:
Introduction
: Show how to install Go and details the lineage of the language Go.
Basics
: Types, variables and control structures.
Functions
: How to make and use functions.
Packages
: Functions and data is grouped together in packages. Here you will see how to make your own package. How to unit test your package is also described.
Beyond the basics
: Learn how to create your own data types and define function on them (called methods in Go).
Interfaces
: Go does not support Object Orientation in the traditional sense. In Go the central concept is interfaces.
Concurrency
: With the go keyword function can be started in separate routines (called goroutines). Communication with those goroutines is done via channels.
Communication
: How to create/read/write from and to files. And how to do networking.
Each chapter concludes with a number of exercises (and answers) to may help you to get some hands on experience. Currently it has more than 30 exercises.
- See http://www.golang.org for the homepage of Go;
- Download the
pdfs from: http://miek.nl/files/go/ ; - Project page: http://www.miek.nl/projects/learninggo/index.html .
When building this from scratch you will need the following packages on Debian/Ubuntu:
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After that, you will hopefully only have to give make.
If not, so the pre-build pdfs on http://www.miek.nl/files/go/