Tanmay Teaches Go: The Ideal Language for Backend Developers

Length: 208 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education TAB
Publication Date: 2021-05-28
ISBN-10: 1264258143
ISBN-13: 9781264258147
Sales Rank: #2067465 (See Top 100 Books)

Write your own efficient, performant, and lightweight programs using Go
Quickly start developing your own Google Go programs using the practical information contained in this engaging resource. Social media personalities Tanmay Bakshi and Baheer Kamal show, step by step, how to develop custom applications that fully utilize Go’s lightweight runtime and concurrency features. Tanmay Teaches Go: The Ideal Language for Backend Developers teaches by doing. This book guides you through the development and programming processes and features detailed examples, code samples, and time-saving tips.

Inside, you’ll learn to:

Install Go on Windows, Linux, or macOS devices
Get up and running with writing your own Go apps
Define variables and use them in your programs
Work with statements, functions, loops, and arrays
Use Go modules to simplify program development
Utilize built-in and third-party packages
Write custom packages that fit your programming needs
Understand classic structures and algorithms
Improve performance using Go routines and concurrency
Import external code―even code not written in Go!

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Authors
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
    Why Go?
        What Are Go’s Design Goals?
        Where Can I Use Go?
        The Go Compiler and Runtime
        Concurrency
2 Quickstart
    Installing Go
        Using a System Package Manager
        Manually Installing a Precompiled Binary
        Building Go from Source
    Basic Go Concepts
        Conventional Project Structure
        A Go Primer—“Hello, World!”
        Variables
        if Statements and switch Statements
        Loops
        Functions
        Structures
        Interfaces
        Errors
3 Go Modules
    Using Built-in Packages
    Using Third-Party Packages
        Am I Prime?
    Building Your Own Packages
        Am I Prime? Part 2
4 Using Built-in Packages
    Common Data Structures and Algorithms
    Dijkstra’s Pathfinding
    Conway’s Game of Life
    Proof of Work
5 Concurrency
    Concurrency, Threads, and Parallelism
    Goroutines
    Channels
        select Statements
    Proof of Work: Part 2!
6 Interoperability
    Why Is Interoperability Important?
    Interoperating with C Code
    Interoperating with Swift
Index