Tanmay Teaches Go: The Ideal Language for Backend Developers

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. About the Authors
5. Contents
6. Preface
7. Acknowledgments
8. 1 Introduction
   1. Why Go?
      1. What Are Go’s Design Goals?
      2. Where Can I Use Go?
      3. The Go Compiler and Runtime
      4. Concurrency
9. 2 Quickstart
   1. Installing Go
      1. Using a System Package Manager
      2. Manually Installing a Precompiled Binary
      3. Building Go from Source
   2. Basic Go Concepts
      1. Conventional Project Structure
      2. A Go Primer—“Hello, World!”
      3. Variables
      4. if Statements and switch Statements
      5. Loops
      6. Functions
      7. Structures
      8. Interfaces
      9. Errors
10. 3 Go Modules
    1. Using Built-in Packages
    2. Using Third-Party Packages
       1. Am I Prime?
    3. Building Your Own Packages
       1. Am I Prime? Part 2
11. 4 Using Built-in Packages
    1. Common Data Structures and Algorithms
    2. Dijkstra’s Pathfinding
    3. Conway’s Game of Life
    4. Proof of Work
12. 5 Concurrency
    1. Concurrency, Threads, and Parallelism
    2. Goroutines
    3. Channels
       1. select Statements
    4. Proof of Work: Part 2!
13. 6 Interoperability
    1. Why Is Interoperability Important?
    2. Interoperating with C Code
    3. Interoperating with Swift
14. Index