Go Fundamentals:Gopher Guides

by: Mark Bates(Author),Cory LaNou(Author)

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Edition:1st

Publication Date: 3 Dec. 2022

Language: English

Print Length: 576 pages

ISBN-10: 0137918305

ISBN-13: 9780137918300

Book Description

Start Writing Production-Ready Go Code FastThousands of developers and teams want to start taking advantage of Go, the powerful language used in projects ranging from Kubeetes to Docker and Vault. Go Fundamentals is specifically designed to get you up-to-speed fast, to leverage your existing knowledge of other languages, and to help you avoid common mistakes made by Go newcomers.Based on author Mark Bates's and Cory LaNou's pioneering Gopher Guides training curricula, this guide will allow you to quickly understand and use Go syntax, core features, and idioms. Reflecting Go through version 1.18--which includes Go's exciting new support for generics--this guide prepares you to write robust, reliable, well-performing production code right from the outset.Lea how Go manages packages, modules, and dependenciesApply Go basics, such as variable declaration, types, and control flowWork effectively with collection types, iteration, functions, structs, and pointersUnderstand Go Slices and use them properlyWrite idiomatic Go, using principles such as embedding and compositionExpertly use concurrency to improve code performanceCreate proper tests to quickly identify and fix problemsWrite simpler, better code with generics and interfacesTake advantage of channels, context, sync primatives, and other advanced featuresGo is lightweight, simple, and perfect for mode cloud-native and microservices development, which is why Go developers are in such high demand. With this guide and six months' experience with any mode programming language, you'll have what you need to leap into Go programming.Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

About the Author

About the Author Mark Bates is co-founder and instructor at Gopher Guides, the industry leader for Go training, consulting, and conference workshops. Since 2000, he has worked with some of the world's largest, most innovative companies, including Apple, Uber, and Visa. Mark discovered Go in 2013 and has attended GopherCon and hosted their lightning talks. He has spoken at conferences around the world and is a regular on the Go Time podcast.Cory LaNou, Gopher Guides cofounder and instructor, is a full stack technologist who has specialized in start-ups for the last 20 years. Cory has deep ties to the Go community, having started one of the very first Go meetups in the world, Denver Gophers. Using his real world experience from working on projects such as InfluxDB, a highly scalable database written in Go, he has published numerous practical Go training courses and articles.