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The Go Workshop

By : Delio D'Anna, Andrew Hayes, Sam Hennessy, Jeremy Leasor, Gobin Sougrakpam, Dániel Szabó
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The Go Workshop

By: Delio D'Anna, Andrew Hayes, Sam Hennessy, Jeremy Leasor, Gobin Sougrakpam, Dániel Szabó

Overview of this book

The Go Workshop will take the pain out of learning the Go programming language (also known as Golang). It is designed to teach you to be productive in building real-world software. Presented in an engaging, hands-on way, this book focuses on the features of Go that are used by professionals in their everyday work. Each concept is broken down, clearly explained, and followed up with activities to test your knowledge and build your practical skills. Your first steps will involve mastering Go syntax, working with variables and operators, and using core and complex types to hold data. Moving ahead, you will build your understanding of programming logic and implement Go algorithms to construct useful functions. As you progress, you'll discover how to handle errors, debug code to troubleshoot your applications, and implement polymorphism using interfaces. The later chapters will then teach you how to manage files, connect to a database, work with HTTP servers and REST APIs, and make use of concurrent programming. Throughout this Workshop, you'll work on a series of mini projects, including a shopping cart, a loan calculator, a working hours tracker, a web page counter, a code checker, and a user authentication system. By the end of this book, you'll have the knowledge and confidence to tackle your own ambitious projects with Go.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
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1. Variables and Operators
2
2. Logic and Loops

Logging

Logging can be used to help debug a bug in our program. Operating systems log various information such as access to resources, what an application is doing, the overall health of the system, and much more. It is not doing this because there is an error, rather it is logging to make it easier on the system administrator to determine what is going on with the operating system at various times. It allows for easier debugging when the operating system acts or performs a certain task that was not expected. This is the same attitude we should take when logging our application. We need to think about the information that we gather and how that would help us to debug the application if something is not performing the way we think it should.

We should be performing logging regardless of whether the program needs debugging. Logging is useful for understanding events that happen, the health of the application, any potential issues, and who is accessing our application or data. Logging...