Introduction to Go

A fast paced, hands on workshop on Go Programming. It's meant to be carried out in 2 hours.

• Workshop Outline
  • Welcome | 15 minutes
  • Lesson 1: Getting Started | 15 minutes
  • Lesson 2: Language Fundamentals | 30 minutes
  • Lesson 3: Command Line Applications | 60 minutes

Welcome

• About us
• Why Go?
• Go at a glance
• More about us...and contact info.

Lesson 1: Getting Started

• Installing Go
• Environment - GOPATH
• The go command
• Your first program: Hello World!

Lesson 2: Language Fundamentals

• Constants, Variables, Basic Types and Values
• Conditionals
• Collections
• Looping
• Functions
• Goroutines
• Channels
• Understanding Scope

Lesson 3: Command Line Applications

• cat - copy input to standard output
• tac - copy input to standard output in reverse
• head - ouput the first part of files
• tail - ouput the last part of files

Prequisites... Experienced programmers, comfortable with a command line interface.