Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional - Second Edition

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Variables and Operators

Overview

In this chapter, you will be introduced to various features of Go and gain a basic understanding of what Go code looks like. You will also be provided with a deep understanding of how variables work and will perform exercises and activities to get hands-on and get going.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to use variables, packages, and functions in Go. You will also know how to change variable values in Go. Later in this chapter, you will use operators with numbers and design functions using pointers.

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you'll require Go version 1.21 or higher. The code for this chapter can be found at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Go-Programming-From-Beginner-to-Professional-Second-Edition-/tree/main/Chapter01 ...