Golang from the basics

What the go is?

Go is concise, clean and effiecient programming language by Google.

A Go Program

The entrypoint of a Go program is main package.

GOPATH, What's that?

GOPATH is the environment variable that defines the root of the workspace.

Where is the default GOPATH?

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Windows	Unix
%USERPROFILE%/go	$HOME/go

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Types

• Almost everything in Go is a Type.
• They are almost case insensitive.
• The types of variables should be known in advance.

The Ladder

1. The starting - Hello World
2. The Type and variables
3. Inputs, conversions and parsing
4. Time and Dates
5. Building Go project into different os binaries
6. Memory management
7. Pointers in Go
8. Arrays
9. Slices
10. Key value pairs - Maps
11. Structs
12. Conditionals
13. Switch case
14. Loops
15. Functions
16. Attaching methods to structs
17. defer keyword
18. File system
19. Http requests
20. URL
21. More about HTTP requests
22. JSON - Javascript Object Notation
23. Consuming JSON
24. (Important) - Modules in Golang
25. A Simple In Memory Reset API
26. Go Routines
27. Wait Groups
28. Mutex and RWMutex
29. Communication between go routines