Go Workshop Notes

instructor: about

Outline

• Introduction
  • Motivation and Landscape
  • Hello World
  • Task: "helloworld"
• History
  • Timeline of events
• More First Programs
  • Entry point
  • Importing Code
  • Visibility (public, private)
• Language Overview
  • Basic Types
  • Variable Declarations
  • Control Structures: if, for, switch
• More Types
  • Slices
  • Maps
• Interfaces
  • Structural Typing
  • Small interfaces
  • Variants (basic, embedding, general, ref/spec)
• Go OOP?
  • Is Go object oriented? FAQ
• Error Handling
  • Custom Error Types
  • Wrapping and unwrapping errors
• Project Layout
  • typical structure
  • naming recommendations
  • import path and resolution
  • Go modules
  • mixing public and private code
  • versioning libraries
• IO
  • working with files
  • readers and writers
• Serialization
  • struct tags
  • JSON
  • XML
• Testing Go Code
  • Unit Test
  • Subtests
  • Benchmarks
  • Testcontainers
• Concurrency
  • classic and CSP style
  • goroutines
  • channels
  • select
  • the sync package
  • error handling
  • helpers: errgroup
• HTTP clients
  • clients and transport
  • standard clients, third party clients
• HTTP servers
  • handlers
  • router, e.g. gorilla/mux
  • testing
• Database access
  • package db, db/sql
  • database drivers
  • sqlx helper

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Follow up:

• Linkchecker
• Project layout, modules
  • add library
  • add service
• Services
• Misc