A sandbox for continuous learning of the Go Programming Language for Jason Brownlee.
Go is an emerging programming language by google (mountain view) intended for use in system-level programming, like C. It is compiled, has a scripting language like feel to the syntax, and does not require memory management as it uses a garbage collector at runtime. Go does have pointers and references, but there is no pointer arithmetic when working with arrays (use slices). There are strings that are immutable, and arrays that are mutable. It has support for concurrency built into the language with goroutines and channels.
Work product created while learning go
- geneticalgorithm.go: a simple genetic algorithm applied to the one max function (procedural)
- See my blog post A Genetic Algorithm in Google’s Go Language
- helloworld.go: hello world
- echo.go: echo program
- primes.go: example of searching for primes using channels and goroutines
- multiplexer.go: example of implicit multiplexing using channels and goroutines
- webserver.go: a simple webserver
- build.sh: compiles and links a go file
- build.clean.sh: deletes all .6 and .out files
A collection of useful references directed toward continuous learning the Go programming language.
- Go Homepage official
- Go Tutorial gentle introduction to the language
- Effective Go summary of types and language constructs
- Go pkg API – well, the closest thing we have to an API at this stage (beats reading src)
- Go Nuts a go user group on google groups
- How to install the Go programming language on OSX Snow Leopard
- Additionally, due to permission problems I had to build using: sudo -E ./all.bash
- Ready, Set, Go! Introduction and summary of go
- Google’s New Language (good math, bad math)
- Go Textmate Bundle – the build in textmate doesn’t work for me, i use scripts instead
- Go Language Resources
- Go Programming Language: Tech Talk google tech talk introducing the language
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