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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