Golang/Go Training Course 

(up to 5 days, from Beginner to Advanced topics) 

 

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Note: this outline is our proposal, but the training can be tailored to your specific requirements upon prior request ahead of the proposed course date.

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Why Learn Golang?

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Go Programming language is an open source programming language developed by Google. It is a statically-typed compiled language. It compiles fast, runs fast-ish, includes a runtime and garbage collection, has a simple static type system and dynamic interfaces, and an excellent standard library.

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Requirements

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  • Basic programming language skills

  • Knowledge of C Programming

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Course details

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The agenda covers both fundamentals and advanced topics.

The final training outline will be designed depending on your particular requirements.

The practical exercises constitute a big part of the course time, besides demonstrations and theoretical presentations. Discussions and questions can be asked throughout the course.

 

Course Outline

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OVERVIEW

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  • Features of Go Programming

  • Features Excluded Intentionally

  • Go Programs

  • Compiling and Executing Go Programs

 

ENVIRONMENT SETUP

 

  • Local Environment Setup

  • Text Editor

  • The Go Compiler

  • Download Go Archive

  • Installation on UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X, and FreeBSD

  • Installation on Windows

  • Verifying the Installation

 

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

 

  • Hello World Example

  • Executing a Go Program 

 

BASIC SYNTAX

 

  • Tokens in Go

  • Line Separator

  • Comments

  • Identifiers

  • Keywords

  • Whitespace in Go 

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DATA TYPES

 

  • Integer Types

  • Floating Types

  • Other Numeric Types

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VARIABLES

 

  • Variable Definition in Go

  • Static Type Declaration in Go

  • Dynamic Type Declaration / Type Inference in Go

  • Mixed Variable Declaration in Go

  • The lvalues and the rvalues in Go

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CONSTANTS

 

  • Integer Literals

  • Floating-point Literals

  • Escape Sequence

  • String Literals in Go

  • The const Keyword  

 

OPERATORS

 

  • Arithmetic Operators

  • Relational Operators

  • Logical Operators

  • Bitwise Operators

  • Assignment Operators

  • Miscellaneous Operators

  • Operators Precedence in Go

 

DECISION MAKING

 

  • The if Statement

  • The if…else Statement

  • Nested if Statement

  • The Switch Statement

  • The Select Statement

  • The if...else if...else Statement

 

LOOPS

 

  • for Loop

  • Nested for Loops

  • Loop Control Statements

  • The continue Statement

  • The goto Statement

  • The Infinite Loop

 

FUNCTIONS

 

  • Defining a Function

  • Calling a Function

  • Returning Multiple Values from Function

  • Function Arguments

  • Call by Value

  • Call by Reference

  • Function Usage

  • Function Closures

  • Method

 

SCOPE RULES

 

  • Local Variables

  • Global Variables

  • Formal Parameters

  • Initializing Local and Global Variables

 

STRINGS

 

  • Creating Strings

  • String Length

  • Concatenating Strings

 

ARRAYS

 

  • Declaring Arrays

  • Initializing Arrays

  • Accessing Array Elements

  • Go Arrays in Detail

  • Multidimensional Arrays in Go

  • Two-Dimensional Arrays

  • Initializing Two-Dimensional Arrays

  • Accessing Two-Dimensional Array Elements

  • Passing Arrays to Functions

 

POINTERS

 

  • What Are Pointers?

  • How to Use Pointers?

  • Nil Pointers in Go

  • Go Pointers in Detail

  • Go – Array of Pointers

  • Go – Pointer to Pointer

  • Go – Passing Pointers to Functions

 

STRUCTURES

 

  • Defining a Structure

  • Accessing Structure Members

  • Structures as Function Arguments

  • Pointers to Structures

 

SLICES

 

  • Defining a slice

  • len() and cap() functions

  • Nil slice

  • Subslicing

  • append() and copy() Functions

 

RANGE

 

MAPS

 

  • Defining a Map

  • delete() Function

 

RECURSION

 

TYPE CASTING

 

INTERFACES

 

ERROR HANDLING

 

PACKAGES 

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CONCURRENCY – Goroutines & Channel

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