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Learning Go Programming

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Learning Go Programming

Overview of this book

The Go programming language has firmly established itself as a favorite for building complex and scalable system applications. Go offers a direct and practical approach to programming that let programmers write correct and predictable code using concurrency idioms and a full-featured standard library. This is a step-by-step, practical guide full of real world examples to help you get started with Go in no time at all. We start off by understanding the fundamentals of Go, followed by a detailed description of the Go data types, program structures and Maps. After this, you learn how to use Go concurrency idioms to avoid pitfalls and create programs that are exact in expected behavior. Next, you will be familiarized with the tools and libraries that are available in Go for writing and exercising tests, benchmarking, and code coverage. Finally, you will be able to utilize some of the most important features of GO such as, Network Programming and OS integration to build efficient applications. All the concepts are explained in a crisp and concise manner and by the end of this book; you would be able to create highly efficient programs that you can deploy over cloud.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Go Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Chapter 10. Data IO in Go

Previous chapters of this book focused mainly on fundamentals. In this and future chapters, readers are introduced to some of the powerful APIs provided by Go's standard library. This chapter discusses in detail how to input, process, transform, and output data using APIs from the standard library and their respective packages with the following topics:

  • IO with readers and writers

  • The io.Reader interface

  • The io.Writer interface

  • Working with the io package

  • Working with files

  • Formatted IO with fmt

  • Buffered IO

  • In-memory IO

  • Encoding and decoding data