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Developer learning path

Go

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Go is a programming language developed at Google in 2007 with an aim to make software development faster, scalable, and efficient. It is an open-source programming language that is simple, concurrent, and has a garbage collector.

A course on Go would typically cover the fundamentals of the language, including syntax, data types, functions, and control flow. It would then move on to cover more advanced topics such as concurrency, channels, and interfaces.

Some of the topics covered in a typical Go course may include:

  1. Introduction to Go Programming: Basics and Overview of Go programming language.
  1. Variables and Data Types: Working with various types of data, declaring variables, and managing memory.
  1. Control Flow and Functions: Managing program flow and creating reusable code with functions.
  1. Object-Oriented Programming: Working with structs, inheritance, and polymorphism in Go.
  1. Concurrency and Parallelism: Creating concurrent programs and managing data between parallel programs.
  1. Go Standard Library: Exploring the Go standard library, which consists of a variety of pre-built packages for common programming tasks.
  1. Web Development: Building web-based applications using Go and other relevant tools and libraries.

By the end of a Go course, students should be proficient in the language and have a good understanding of how to build efficient and scalable programs with it.

March 27, 2023