Programming in Go

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
Learning the fundamentals of a new programming language is vital to your success in utilizing the language to its fullest. In this course, you'll learn the skills required to use the Go programming language to write your own programs. This includes basic language syntax, working with variables, types, structs, slices, and maps. Additionally, flow control statements such as for, if, and switch are examined, and pointers, Goroutines, and channels are introduced.

Target Audience
This course is targeted towards individuals wanting to learn the basic skills required to write programs using the Go programming language. Previous programming skills in languages such as C, C++ or Java may be beneficial.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.9

Lesson Objectives

Programming in Go

start the course

describe the background and basic features of the Go programming language

recognize a simple Go program and how it is created and executed

work with packages and imports, and recognize the more commonly used packages from the Go standard library

declare and initialize variables and constants in Go

work with pointers in Go programs, including passing by value and passing by reference

recognize the basic types in the Go language and describe type inference

work with functions, including passing arguments and returning values

recognize and work with the for statement in Go programs

recognize and work with the if statement in Go programs

recognize and work with the switch statement in Go programs

recognize and work with the defer statement in Go programs

write a Go program that uses flow control statements

work with arrays in Go programs, including declaring and initializing them

declare and initialize slices in Go programs

work with slices within functions and methods of your Go programs

manipulate Go slices using Go's built-in make, copy, and append functions

work with structs in your Go programs

declare, initialize, and manipulate maps in Go

recognize and work with some of the more advanced features associated with functions in Go

create and use methods in your Go programs

recognize and work with Go's implementation of interfaces

describe how concurrency is implemented in Go and the benefits of writing concurrent programs

recognize how to create a concurrent program in Go

describe the purpose of channels in Go programs and how to use unbuffered and buffered channels

write a Go program that creates and manipulates a slice

Course Number:
sd_gopf_a01_it_enus

Expertise Level
Beginner