yasir2000 / the-go-workshop

A New, Interactive Approach to Learning Go

The Go Workshop

This is the repository for The Go Workshop, published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the course from start to finish.

Requirements and Setup

To get started with the project files, you'll need to:

1. Install the Go Compiler
2. Install Git
3. Install Visual Studio Code (Editor/IDE)

About The Go Workshop

The Go Workshop takes you from being a novice Go programmer to a confident developer who can leverage the key features of the language to build real-world applications. This workshop helps you cut through excessive theory and delve into the practical features and techniques that are commonly applied to design performant, scalable applications.

What you will learn

• Understand Go syntax and use it to handle data and write functions
• Debug your Go code to troubleshoot development problems
• Safely handle errors and recover from panics
• Implement polymorphism by using interfaces
• Work with files and connect to external databases
• Create a HTTP client and server and work with a RESTful web API
• Use concurrency to design software that can multitask
• Use Go Tools to simplify development and improve your code

Related Workshops and Book

If you've found this repository useful, you might want to check out some of our other workshop titles:

• The JavaScript Workshop
• The React Workshop
• Front End Development Projects with Vue.js