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Learning Go Programming

Learning Go Programming

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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 (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. A First Step in Go
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1. A First Step in Go
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The Go programming language
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Playing with Go
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Your first Go program
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Go in a nutshell
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Summary
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2. Go Language Essentials
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2. Go Language Essentials
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The Go source file
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Go identifiers
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Go variables
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Go constants
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Go operators
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3. Go Control Flow
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3. Go Control Flow
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The if statement
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Switch statements
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The for statements
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The break, continue, and goto statements
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4. Data Types
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4. Data Types
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Go types
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Numeric types
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Boolean type
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Rune and string types
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Pointers
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Type declaration
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Type conversion
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5. Functions in Go
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5. Functions in Go
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Go functions
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Passing parameter values
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Higher-order functions
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Error signaling and handling
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Deferring function calls
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Function panic and recovery
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6. Go Packages and Programs
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6. Go Packages and Programs
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The Go package
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Creating packages
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Building packages
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Package visibility
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Importing package
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Package initialization
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Creating programs
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Remote packages
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7. Composite Types
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7. Composite Types
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The array type
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The slice type
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The map type
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The struct type
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8. Methods, Interfaces, and Objects
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8. Methods, Interfaces, and Objects
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Go methods
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Objects in Go
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The interface type
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Type assertion
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9. Concurrency
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9. Concurrency
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Goroutines
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Channels
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Writing concurrent programs
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The sync package
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Detecting race conditions
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Parallelism in Go
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10. Data IO in Go
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10. Data IO in Go
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IO with readers and writers
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The io.Reader interface
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The io.Writer interface
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Working with the io package
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Working with files
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Formatted IO with fmt
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Buffered IO
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In-memory IO
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Encoding and decoding data
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11. Writing Networked Services
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11. Writing Networked Services
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The net package
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A TCP API server
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The HTTP package
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A JSON API server
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12. Code Testing
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12. Code Testing
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The Go test tool
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Writing Go tests
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HTTP testing
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Test coverage
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Code benchmark
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Higher-order functions

We have already established that Go functions are values bound to a type. So, it should not be a surprise that a Go function can take another function as a parameter and also return a function as a result value. This describes the notion known as a higher-order function, which is a concept adopted from mathematics. While types such as struct let programmers abstract data, higher-order functions provide a mechanism to encapsulate and abstract behaviors that can be composed together to form more complex behaviors.

To make this concept clearer, let us examine the following program, which uses a higher-order function, apply, to do three things. It accepts a slice of integers and a function as parameters. It applies the specified function to each element in the slice. Lastly, the apply function also returns a function as its result:

package main 
import "fmt" 
 
func apply(nums []int, f func(int) int) func() { 
   for i, v := range nums { 
      ...
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