Building Your First Application with Go

First Application 5 lectures 23:21 Bootstrapping Your Workspace Getting the Go language compiler. Setting up the environment for developing and running applications.

• Downloading compiler binaries
• Unpacking or running the installer
• Setting up the environment variables for activating the proper workspace

"Hello, world!" Getting the very first application to work. It's useful to receive the first working result and understand the application structure.

• Definition of the main package
• Definition of the main function
• Running the application with go run

Mastering the "go" Tool Mastering the standard go tool for processing the Golang source code: compilation, formatting, testing, and documentation.

• Running and building
• Formatting the source code
• Setting up automated testing

First Useful Application Introducing standard input and output as the simplest way for users to interact with the application.

• Starting with the "Hello, world!" application
• Receiving user input
• Processing input and generating output

Commenting the Code Commenting and documenting the Go language source code in order to simplify the understanding of complex applications.

• Writing multiline comments
• Writing single-line comments
• Writing documentation

First Application 5 lectures 23:21 Bootstrapping Your Workspace Getting the Go language compiler. Setting up the environment for developing and running applications.

• Downloading compiler binaries
• Unpacking or running the installer
• Setting up the environment variables for activating the proper workspace

"Hello, world!" Getting the very first application to work. It's useful to receive the first working result and understand the application structure.

• Definition of the main package
• Definition of the main function
• Running the application with go run

Mastering the "go" Tool Mastering the standard go tool for processing the Golang source code: compilation, formatting, testing, and documentation.

• Running and building
• Formatting the source code
• Setting up automated testing

First Useful Application Introducing standard input and output as the simplest way for users to interact with the application.

• Starting with the "Hello, world!" application
• Receiving user input
• Processing input and generating output

Commenting the Code Commenting and documenting the Go language source code in order to simplify the understanding of complex applications.

• Writing multiline comments
• Writing single-line comments
• Writing documentation

Bootstrapping Your Workspace Getting the Go language compiler. Setting up the environment for developing and running applications.

• Downloading compiler binaries
• Unpacking or running the installer
• Setting up the environment variables for activating the proper workspace

Bootstrapping Your Workspace Getting the Go language compiler. Setting up the environment for developing and running applications.

• Downloading compiler binaries
• Unpacking or running the installer
• Setting up the environment variables for activating the proper workspace

Bootstrapping Your Workspace Getting the Go language compiler. Setting up the environment for developing and running applications.

• Downloading compiler binaries
• Unpacking or running the installer
• Setting up the environment variables for activating the proper workspace

Bootstrapping Your Workspace Getting the Go language compiler. Setting up the environment for developing and running applications.

• Downloading compiler binaries
• Unpacking or running the installer
• Setting up the environment variables for activating the proper workspace

Getting the Go language compiler. Setting up the environment for developing and running applications.

• Downloading compiler binaries
• Unpacking or running the installer
• Setting up the environment variables for activating the proper workspace

Getting the Go language compiler. Setting up the environment for developing and running applications.

• Downloading compiler binaries
• Unpacking or running the installer
• Setting up the environment variables for activating the proper workspace

"Hello, world!" Getting the very first application to work. It's useful to receive the first working result and understand the application structure.

• Definition of the main package
• Definition of the main function
• Running the application with go run

"Hello, world!" Getting the very first application to work. It's useful to receive the first working result and understand the application structure.

• Definition of the main package
• Definition of the main function
• Running the application with go run

"Hello, world!" Getting the very first application to work. It's useful to receive the first working result and understand the application structure.

• Definition of the main package
• Definition of the main function
• Running the application with go run

"Hello, world!" Getting the very first application to work. It's useful to receive the first working result and understand the application structure.

• Definition of the main package
• Definition of the main function
• Running the application with go run

Getting the very first application to work. It's useful to receive the first working result and understand the application structure.

• Definition of the main package
• Definition of the main function
• Running the application with go run

Getting the very first application to work. It's useful to receive the first working result and understand the application structure.

• Definition of the main package
• Definition of the main function
• Running the application with go run

Mastering the "go" Tool Mastering the standard go tool for processing the Golang source code: compilation, formatting, testing, and documentation.

• Running and building
• Formatting the source code
• Setting up automated testing

Mastering the "go" Tool Mastering the standard go tool for processing the Golang source code: compilation, formatting, testing, and documentation.

• Running and building
• Formatting the source code
• Setting up automated testing

Mastering the "go" Tool Mastering the standard go tool for processing the Golang source code: compilation, formatting, testing, and documentation.

• Running and building
• Formatting the source code
• Setting up automated testing

Mastering the "go" Tool Mastering the standard go tool for processing the Golang source code: compilation, formatting, testing, and documentation.

• Running and building
• Formatting the source code
• Setting up automated testing

Mastering the standard go tool for processing the Golang source code: compilation, formatting, testing, and documentation.

• Running and building
• Formatting the source code
• Setting up automated testing

Mastering the standard go tool for processing the Golang source code: compilation, formatting, testing, and documentation.

• Running and building
• Formatting the source code
• Setting up automated testing

First Useful Application Introducing standard input and output as the simplest way for users to interact with the application.

• Starting with the "Hello, world!" application
• Receiving user input
• Processing input and generating output

First Useful Application Introducing standard input and output as the simplest way for users to interact with the application.

• Starting with the "Hello, world!" application
• Receiving user input
• Processing input and generating output

First Useful Application Introducing standard input and output as the simplest way for users to interact with the application.

• Starting with the "Hello, world!" application
• Receiving user input
• Processing input and generating output

First Useful Application Introducing standard input and output as the simplest way for users to interact with the application.

• Starting with the "Hello, world!" application
• Receiving user input
• Processing input and generating output

Introducing standard input and output as the simplest way for users to interact with the application.

• Starting with the "Hello, world!" application
• Receiving user input
• Processing input and generating output

Introducing standard input and output as the simplest way for users to interact with the application.

• Starting with the "Hello, world!" application
• Receiving user input
• Processing input and generating output

Commenting the Code Commenting and documenting the Go language source code in order to simplify the understanding of complex applications.

• Writing multiline comments
• Writing single-line comments
• Writing documentation

Commenting the Code Commenting and documenting the Go language source code in order to simplify the understanding of complex applications.

• Writing multiline comments
• Writing single-line comments
• Writing documentation

Commenting the Code Commenting and documenting the Go language source code in order to simplify the understanding of complex applications.

• Writing multiline comments
• Writing single-line comments
• Writing documentation

Commenting the Code Commenting and documenting the Go language source code in order to simplify the understanding of complex applications.

• Writing multiline comments
• Writing single-line comments
• Writing documentation

Commenting and documenting the Go language source code in order to simplify the understanding of complex applications.

• Writing multiline comments
• Writing single-line comments
• Writing documentation

Commenting and documenting the Go language source code in order to simplify the understanding of complex applications.

• Writing multiline comments
• Writing single-line comments
• Writing documentation

Basic and Complex Data Types 6 lectures 29:54 Variables and Constants Learn ways to store data in an application's main memory while switching between changing data and constant data.

• Define package-level constants and variables
• Define function-level constants and variables
• Playing with scopes

Playing with Numbers and Strings Defining variables of numeric and textual data types. Introducing the boolean data type, which is a result of common operations.

• Discussion of numbers, booleans, and runes
• Operations on bools and numbers
• Defining and operating on string variables

Pointers and Values Using pointers instead of values. Learning the significance of pointers.

• Using fmt.Scanf
• Accessing the pointer from a numeric value
• Returning from pointer to value

Slices and Arrays Using arrays and slices to store values. Avoiding a large number of variables for storing values.

• Slice definition syntax
• Operations on slices
• Defining arrays – a partial event of slices

Two-dimensional Slices Using two-dimensional slices to solve practical tasks – representing matrices. Introducing n-dimensional slices.

• Defining two-dimensional slices
• Matrix addition tasks
• Defining n-dimensional slices

Maps Using maps for practical tasks – serialization of objects and data caching.

• Maps definition syntax
• Operations on maps
• Serializing data to a string

Basic and Complex Data Types. 6 lectures 29:54 Variables and Constants Learn ways to store data in an application's main memory while switching between changing data and constant data.

• Define package-level constants and variables
• Define function-level constants and variables
• Playing with scopes

Playing with Numbers and Strings Defining variables of numeric and textual data types. Introducing the boolean data type, which is a result of common operations.

• Discussion of numbers, booleans, and runes
• Operations on bools and numbers
• Defining and operating on string variables

Pointers and Values Using pointers instead of values. Learning the significance of pointers.

• Using fmt.Scanf
• Accessing the pointer from a numeric value
• Returning from pointer to value

Slices and Arrays Using arrays and slices to store values. Avoiding a large number of variables for storing values.

• Slice definition syntax
• Operations on slices
• Defining arrays – a partial event of slices

Two-dimensional Slices Using two-dimensional slices to solve practical tasks – representing matrices. Introducing n-dimensional slices.

• Defining two-dimensional slices
• Matrix addition tasks
• Defining n-dimensional slices

Maps Using maps for practical tasks – serialization of objects and data caching.

• Maps definition syntax
• Operations on maps
• Serializing data to a string

Variables and Constants Learn ways to store data in an application's main memory while switching between changing data and constant data "if-else" – Understand Your Code to Make Decisions Adding the conditional execution of code blocks to an application. Even the simplest of applications require the...