Overview

Go is an open source project developed by a team at Google and many contributors from the open source community. It combines the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language. If you are leveraging Go to create applications on the job or on your own, attending this course will help you understand how Go works, and immediately be more productive. If you are building a team using Go, this will be a great opportunity to get your team on the same page and speaking the same language.

Audience

Programmers who wish to learn the Go programming language.

Prerequisites

Students attending this class should have at least 6 months experience programming in a language such as Java, C / C++, C#. Experience programming in a scripting language such as JavaScript or Python is also sufficient. No prior experience with Go is assumed or required.

Course duration

4 Days

Course outline

Day 1

• Introduction to Go
• Getting Started
• Basic Data Types