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Learning Go Programming

Learning Go Programming

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Learning Go Programming

Learning Go Programming

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Overview of this book

The Go programming language has firmly established itself as a favorite for building complex and scalable system applications. Go offers a direct and practical approach to programming that let programmers write correct and predictable code using concurrency idioms and a full-featured standard library. This is a step-by-step, practical guide full of real world examples to help you get started with Go in no time at all. We start off by understanding the fundamentals of Go, followed by a detailed description of the Go data types, program structures and Maps. After this, you learn how to use Go concurrency idioms to avoid pitfalls and create programs that are exact in expected behavior. Next, you will be familiarized with the tools and libraries that are available in Go for writing and exercising tests, benchmarking, and code coverage. Finally, you will be able to utilize some of the most important features of GO such as, Network Programming and OS integration to build efficient applications. All the concepts are explained in a crisp and concise manner and by the end of this book; you would be able to create highly efficient programs that you can deploy over cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. A First Step in Go
1. A First Step in Go
The Go programming language
Playing with Go
Your first Go program
Go in a nutshell
Summary
2
2. Go Language Essentials
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2. Go Language Essentials
The Go source file
Go identifiers
Go variables
Go constants
Go operators
Summary
3
3. Go Control Flow
3. Go Control Flow
The if statement
Switch statements
The for statements
The break, continue, and goto statements
Summary
4
4. Data Types
4. Data Types
Go types
Numeric types
Boolean type
Rune and string types
Pointers
Type declaration
Type conversion
Summary
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5. Functions in Go
5. Functions in Go
Go functions
Passing parameter values
Higher-order functions
Error signaling and handling
Deferring function calls
Function panic and recovery
Summary
6
6. Go Packages and Programs
6. Go Packages and Programs
The Go package
Creating packages
Building packages
Package visibility
Importing package
Package initialization
Creating programs
Remote packages
Summary
7
7. Composite Types
7. Composite Types
The array type
The slice type
The map type
The struct type
Summary
8
8. Methods, Interfaces, and Objects
8. Methods, Interfaces, and Objects
Go methods
Objects in Go
The interface type
Type assertion
Summary
9
9. Concurrency
9. Concurrency
Goroutines
Channels
Writing concurrent programs
The sync package
Detecting race conditions
Parallelism in Go
Summary
10
10. Data IO in Go
10. Data IO in Go
IO with readers and writers
The io.Reader interface
The io.Writer interface
Working with the io package
Working with files
Formatted IO with fmt
Buffered IO
In-memory IO
Encoding and decoding data
Summary
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11. Writing Networked Services
11. Writing Networked Services
The net package
A TCP API server
The HTTP package
A JSON API server
Summary
12
12. Code Testing
12. Code Testing
The Go test tool
Writing Go tests
HTTP testing
Test coverage
Code benchmark
Summary

Go constants

In Go, a constant is a value with a literal representation such as a string of text, Boolean, or numbers. The value for a constant is static and cannot be changed after initial assignment. While the concept they represent is simple, constants, however, have some interesting properties that make them useful, especially when working with numeric values.

Constant literals

Constants are values that can be represented by a text literal in the language. One of the most interesting properties of constants is that their literal representations can either be treated as typed or untyped values. Unlike variables, which are intrinsically bound to a type, constants can be stored as untyped values in memory space. Without that type constraint, numeric constant values, for instance, can be stored with great precision.

The followings are examples of valid constant literal values that can be expressed in Go:

"Mastering Go" 
'G' 
false 
111009 
2.71828 
94314483457513374347558557572455574926671352...

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