Go Programming Training Course

Who should attend

Anyone who is looking to learn to program using the Go language, leveraging the rapid application development capabilities of Go, as well as the scalable, commercial-quality functional aspects of the language.

Prerequisites

The public scheduled Go Programming course assumes some programming experience, and any skills in Object Oriented languages (such as C, Java, C# or Python) will be a definite boon.

On-site

We are very happy to tailor delivery of the course to best suit your audience, for closed / on-site Go training courses. A variant of the workshop can be used to introduce people to programming fundamentals (useful for instance for graduate in-take schemes). Alternatively we can amp up the intensity of the workshop for those who have some experience of Go and want to become better.

Go Programming Training Course Syllabus

Introducing the workshop, the leader, the participants, and the Go programming language and workflow.

Go Basics

Tackling a small, self-contained, straightforward problem or three to ensure setup and workflow.

Go Error Handling

Many programming languages rely on exceptions for error handling. Go has eschewed these (except for the panic exception to terminate execution) in favour of error codes returned to callers. We’ll see how best to handle errors and look at customising error handling.

Data and Object-based Programming with Go

Go does not have the concept of classes and inheritance, but instead allows methods to be added to a data structure to create an object-based way of working.

Go Interfaces and Polymorphism

Go's approach to polymorphism centres on the use of interface and programming to interfaces.

Go Concurrency and Parallelism

One of the main benefits of Go is the ease in which highly concurrent code can be safely and easily written thanks to goroutines and channels. We’ll look at how to combine these tools to solve a number of different problems.

Go Networking

Go is currently getting most traction in problems relating to networking. We’ll look at both HTTP based RESTful applications and using Go to handle raw TCP sockets.

Go Packaging and Distribution

Go distributions come with a large number of very high-quality bits and pieces allowing us to create a very large number of applications. It is not however a "batteries included" distribution, there are a large number of very high-quality packages not part of the distribution, but they are part of the overall milieu. In this session we will tackle some problems for which we will need extra bits and pieces. In turn we will create something that could be useful to others.

Closing

Not really to say goodbye, more au revoir. This workshop is a springboard for using Go for applications and infrastructure, learning more Go, and being welcomed by the world-wide Go community.