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Mastering Go - Second Edition

By : Mihalis Tsoukalos
Book Image

Mastering Go - Second Edition

By: Mihalis Tsoukalos

Overview of this book

Often referred to (incorrectly) as Golang, Go is the high-performance systems language of the future. Mastering Go, Second Edition helps you become a productive expert Go programmer, building and improving on the groundbreaking first edition. Mastering Go, Second Edition shows how to put Go to work on real production systems. For programmers who already know the Go language basics, this book provides examples, patterns, and clear explanations to help you deeply understand Go’s capabilities and apply them in your programming work. The book covers the nuances of Go, with in-depth guides on types and structures, packages, concurrency, network programming, compiler design, optimization, and more. Each chapter ends with exercises and resources to fully embed your new knowledge. This second edition includes a completely new chapter on machine learning in Go, guiding you from the foundation statistics techniques through simple regression and clustering to classification, neural networks, and anomaly detection. Other chapters are expanded to cover using Go with Docker and Kubernetes, Git, WebAssembly, JSON, and more. If you take the Go programming language seriously, the second edition of this book is an essential guide on expert techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Linked lists in Go

A linked list is a data structure with a finite set of elements where each element uses at least two memory locations: one for storing the actual data and the other for storing a pointer that links the current element to the next one, thus creating a sequence of elements that construct the linked list.

The first element of a linked list is called the head, whereas the last element is often called the tail. The first thing that you should do when defining a linked list is to keep the head of the list in a separate variable because the head is the only thing that you have to access the entire linked list. Note that if you lose the pointer to that first node of a singly linked list, there is no way to find it again.

Figure 5.3: A linked list with five nodes

The next figure shows you how to remove an existing node from a linked list in order to better understand...