LetsGO!

GO Programming Language!

Getting Started with GO!
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This repository will keep track of my GO learning experience. The entire phase is divided into 4 Weeks. It will include my personal notes as well as Documentation snippets provided by the GO Community. Follow along of you want to get started with Go.

Contents

Week 1:

1. Why GO?

• Fast-paving compilation and execution
• Do away with the need of working with different subsets of languages for one project.
• A boost to code readability and documentation
• Offering a thoroughly consistent language
• Facilitating easy versioning of the program
• Allowing developing with multiple languages
• Allowing easier maintenance of dependencies

2. GO vs. other High Level Languages.

3. Advantages of GO!

• Concurrency Support
  • Management of multiple tasks at the same time.
  • Solves the problems in Parallelism (i.e : Conflict in Memory, Dependent tasks, When do tasks start and stop etc. )
• Garbage Collection
  • Automatic memory management.
  • Gives a ton of control over memory allocation.
  • Reduces latency to 1ms. Uses algorithm of Tricolor Mark & Sweep.
• Simplicity
  • Very small language specs.
  • Tutorials and Docs
• Scalability
  • Need of the hour with growing Applications.
  • Features such as Concurrency, Goroutines, Channels help in improving Scalability.

4. Setting up Develepment Environment.

• Download Go Installer
• Verify GOPATH

Week 2:

• Writing our first GoLang Program, i.e "Hello World".
• Variables
• Variables Initialization
• Pointers
• Variable Scope
• Deallocating Memory
• Garbage Collection
• Comments, Printing
• Data Types : int, float, strings
• String Packages
• Control Flow, Scan()
• Assignment

Week 3 :

• Arrays
• Slices
• Hashtables
• Maps
• Structs
• Assignment

Week 4 :

• RFC
• JSON
• File Access - IOUtil
• File Access - OS