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Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional

Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional - Second Edition

By : Samantha Coyle
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Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional

Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional

4.5 (14)
By: Samantha Coyle

Overview of this book

Go Programming – From Beginner to Professional is a comprehensive guide that takes your proficiency in the Go programming language from novice to expert. Starting with fundamental concepts, this book covers variables, command-line tools, and working with data before delving into advanced concepts, including error handling, interfaces, and generics, harnessing Go’s latest features through hands-on exercises. Along the way, you’ll learn to structure projects using Go modules, manage packages effectively, and master debugging techniques. As you progress, you’ll get to grips with practical application-centric aspects such as command-line programming, file manipulation, and working with SQL databases. Additionally, the book explores web server development, RESTful APIs, and utilizing the Go HTTP client to interact with web applications. Further enhancing your Go skills, you’ll learn concurrent programming, testing methodologies, Go tools, and how to deploy applications in the cloud. Throughout the book, you’ll uncover Go’s hidden gems and gain insights into time manipulation, best practices, and more. By the end of this book, you’ll have worked through practical exercises and activities that’ll equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to excel as a proficient Go developer, primed for success in real-world projects.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
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Part 1: Scripts
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Part 2: Components
11
Part 3: Modules
16
Part 4: Applications
20
Part 5: Building For The Web
23
Part 6: Professional

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we learned how to reduce, reuse, and recycle good code practices with Go through the help of functions, separating logical components, and more! We also discovered more regarding functions, such as the fact that functions can be passed as parameters and returned from a function. In this chapter, we will work with errors and learn how to return those from functions.

Developers are not perfect and, by extension, neither is the code that they produce. All software at some point in time has had errors. Handling errors is critical when you are developing software. These errors can have a negative impact of varying degrees on its users. The impact on the users of your software can be more far-reaching than you realize.

For instance, let’s consider the Northeast Blackout of 2003. On August 14, there was a blackout for about 50 million people in the United States and Canada that lasted for 14 days. This was due to a race condition bug in the...

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