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The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing) Book

The Go Programming Language is the authoritative resource for any programmer who wants to learn Go. It shows how to write clear and idiomatic Go to solve real-world problems. The book does not assume prior knowledge of Go nor experience with any specific language, so you'll find it accessible whether you're most comfortable with JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Java, or C++. * The first chapter is a tutorial on the basic concepts of Go, introduced through programs for file I/O and text processing, simple graphics, and web clients and servers. * Early chapters cover the structural elements of Go programs: syntax, control flow, data types, and the organization of a program into packages, files, and functions. The examples illustrate many packages from the standard library and show how to create new ones of your own. Later chapters explain the package mechanism in more detail, and how to build, test, and maintain projects using the go tool. * The chapters on methods and interfaces introduce Go's unconventional approach to object-oriented programming, in which methods can be declared on any type and interfaces are implicitly satisfied. They explain the key principles of encapsulation, composition, and substitutability using realistic examples. * Two chapters on concurrency present in-depth approaches to this increasingly important topic. The first, which covers the basic mechanisms of goroutines and channels, illustrates the style known as communicating sequential processes for which Go is renowned. The second covers more traditional aspects of concurrency with shared variables. These chapters provide a solid foundation for programmers encountering concurrency for the first time. * The final two chapters explore lower-level features of Go. One covers the art of metaprogramming using reflection. The other shows how to use the unsafe package to step outside the type system for special situations, and how to use the cgo tool to create Go bindings for C libraries. The book featuRead More

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    The authoritative resource to writing clear and idiomatic Go to solve real-world problemsGoogle’s Go team member Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language, provide hundreds of interesting and practical examples of well-written Go code to help programmers learn this flexible, and fast, language. It is designed to get you started programming with Go right away and then to progress on to more advanced topics.Basic components : an opening tutorial provides information and examples to get you off the ground and doing useful things as quickly as possible. This includes: command-line argumentsgifsURLsweb serversProgram structure : simple examples cover the basic structural elements of a Go program without getting sidetracked by complicated algorithms or data structures.Data types: Go offers a variety of ways to organize data, with a spectrum of data types that at one end match the features of the hardware and at the other end provide what programmers need to conveniently represent complicated data structures.Composite types : arraysslicesmapsstructsJSONtest and HTML templatesFunctions : break a big job into smaller pieces that might well be written by different people separated by both time and space.Methods :declarationswith a pointer receiverstruct embeddingvalues and expressionsInterfaces : write functions that are more flexible and adaptable because they are not tied to the details of one particular implementation.Concurrent programming : Goroutines, channels, and with shared variables.Packages : use existing packages and create new ones.Automated testing : write small programs that check the code.Reflection features : update variables and inspect their values at run time.Low-level programming : step outside the usual rules to achieve the highest possible performance, interoperate with libraries written in other languages, or implement a function that cannot be expressed in pure Go.Each chapter has exercises to test your understanding and explore extensions and alternatives. Source code is freely available for download and may be conveniently fetched, built, and installed using the go get command.

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    Go Programming Language, The : Paperback : Pearson Education (US) : 9780134190440 : 0134190440 : 05 Nov 2015 : The book will quickly get students started using Go effectively from the beginning, and by the end, they will know how to use it well to write clear, idiomatic and efficient programs to solve real-world problems. They'll understand not just how to use its standard libraries, but how they work, and how to apply the same design techniques to their own projects.

  • 0134190440
  • 9780134190440
  • Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan
  • 26 October 2015
  • Addison Wesley
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 400
  • 1
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