learn-golang

Go Resources & Books

• A Tour of Go
• Go By Example
• Learn Go with Tests
• 🌻 Effective Go

Data Types

• Numbers, Strings, Boolean
• Arrays, Slices
• How Capacity of Slice increases on append()
• Slices Deep vs Shallow Copy

Read Input from user

• Read Input using fmt.Scan & fmt.Scanf
• Read Input using bufio
• String Formatting - Different Format Specifiers

Maps & Structs

• Maps & Structs
• Maps are not Reference Variables

Functions, Flow Control(loops, if-else)

• Functions, Anonymous Fns, Recursive Fns
• Variadic Functions - Ever wondered how fmt.Println accepts any number of args without passing them as a list?
• Classic for loop, for-in, for loop as while loop, Range over integers

Closures, Scope, Shadowing

• Closures in Go
• Scope of Variables & Shadowing

Pointers

• Pointers Introduction
• 🌻 new() vs make() & Zero-Values of all types
• 🌻 Does Go supports Pass By Ref ?
• Using Pointers with Structs

Composition & Embedding

• Go doesn't support Inheritance. How can we achieve the similar functionality using the concepts of Composition & Embedding

Concurrency

• Sequential vs Concurrency Execution - Fibonacci

Dealing with JSON

• Encoding & Decoding JSON

Web Server in Go

• Creating a simple Web Server using Gorilla Mux
• Creating GET, POST, PUT, DELETE HTTP Methods - CRUD

Context in Go

• Context Package

SOLID Principles

• Single Responsibility Principle
• Open Closed Principle
• Liskov Substitution Principle
• Interface Seggregation Principle
• Dependency Inversion Principle