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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 (20 chapters)
Title Page

Binary trees in Go

A binary tree is a data structure where underneath each node there exist at most two other nodes. This means that a node can be connected to one, two, or no other nodes. The root of a tree is the first node of the tree. The depth of a tree, which is also called the height of a tree, is defined as the longest path from the root to a node, whereas the depth of a node is the number of edges from the node to the root of the tree. A leaf is a node with no children.

A tree is considered balanced when the longest length from the root node to a leaf is at most one more than the shortest such length. An unbalanced tree is a tree that is not balanced. Balancing a tree might be a difficult and slow operation, so it is better to keep your tree balanced from the beginning rather than trying to balance it after you have created it, especially when your tree has a large number...