Go Programming Course for Developers

Why Go? Overview of Go's features and use cases.

Setting up the Go environment.

Writing your first Go program.

Key differences between Go and your current language (e.g., Python, Java, C++).

Install Go and configure your development environment.

Create a simple "Hello, World!" program.

Experiment with Go’s go run and go build commands.

Go syntax and basic constructs (variables, constants, and functions).

Data types, arrays, slices, and maps.

Control structures: loops, conditionals, and switches.

Implement basic programs using slices and maps.

Write a function that calculates factorials recursively and iteratively.

Pointers and memory management in Go.

Go’s concurrency model: goroutines and channels.

Error handling: idiomatic use of errors and the error type.

Create a program that uses goroutines for concurrent processing.

Use channels to synchronize goroutines.

Write functions that handle errors gracefully.

Structs and methods.

Embedding and composition.

Interfaces and polymorphism.

Build a simple application using structs and methods.

Implement an interface and create multiple types that satisfy it.

Organizing code into packages.

Using and creating Go modules.

Working with the Go standard library.

Refactor a multi-file program into a structured package.

Create and publish a Go module.

Explore Go’s standard library with a focus on fmt, os, and net/http.

Writing unit tests with testing.

Using table-driven tests.

Benchmarking Go code.

Coverage analysis and improving test coverage.

Write unit tests for a small Go package.

Perform benchmarking and optimize a given function.

Reflection in Go.

Working with JSON and XML.

Building REST APIs.

Dependency management with go mod.

Create a REST API with Go.

Parse and manipulate JSON data.

Use reflection to dynamically interact with structs.

Building and running Go applications in production.

Logging and debugging techniques.

Profiling with pprof.

Deploy a Go application as a Docker container.

Profile a program to identify bottlenecks.