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.