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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

The struct type


The last type discussed in this chapter is Go's struct. It is a composite type that serves as a container for other named types known as fields. The following code snippet shows several variables declared as structs:

var( 
   empty struct{} 
   car struct{make, model string} 
   currency struct{name, country string; code int} 
   node struct{ 
         edges []string 
         weight int 
   } 
   person struct{ 
         name string 
         address struct{ 
               street string 
               city, state string 
               postal string 
         } 
   } 
) 

golang.fyi/ch07/structtypes.go

Note that the struct type has the following general format:

struct{<field declaration set>}

The struct type is constructed by specifying the keyword struct followed by a set of field declarations enclosed within curly brackets. In its most common form, a field is a unique identifier with...