LEARNING PATH: Go: The Complete Developer's Guide to Golang

Go Essentials for Full Stack Web Development 29 lectures 03:14:44 Go Essentials for Full Stack Web Development - The Course Overview This video provides an overview of the entire course. A Brief Introduction to Programming This video is intended to teach some basic programming concepts for viewers that are completely new to programming.

• Know what a computer program is
• Understand why programming languages are important
• Learn basic programming concepts

The Gist of Go This video shows the benefits of learning Go.

• Learn Go’s design considerations
• Know about Go’s simplicity
• Get to know the other top benefits found in Go

Installing Go This video shows how to install Go on your computer.

• Go through the Go installation process
• Know the important Go installation details
• Get introduced to the go command

Configuring Go The video shows how to setup your own Go development environment.

• Learn how to set up the proper environment variables
• Walk through writing and running a Go program
• Get introduced to vim-go to the user

Basics - Variable Declaration, Built-in Types, Constants The viewer is in need of knowing Go basics, including performing variable declaration, knowing Go’s built-in types, and working with constants.

• Show the viewer how to declare variables
• Show the viewer Go’s available built-in types
• Show the viewer how to declare and use constants

Packages The viewer needs to know how to both import packages and create their own.

• Show the viewer the significance of importing packages
• Show the viewer how to create their own package
• Show how to use the package the user created

Functions The viewer needs to learn what a function is, how to declare them in Go.

• Inform the viewer of what a function is
• Show viewer how to declare a function in Go
• Explain details about the various function types in Go

Conditional and Loops The viewer needs to know how to make use of Go’s control structures.

• Demonstrate conditional if-else blocks to the viewer
• Demonstrate the switch statement to the viewer
• Demonstrate the for loop and its various uses

Command-line Program The viewer needs to know how to create a command line program that accepts command line arguments and prints usage information to the user of the program.

• Demonstrate how to accept command line arguments
• Demonstrate how to accept command line flags
• Demonstrate the help flag included in the program

Username Syntax Checker The viewer needs a practical example showcasing all the things that they learned in this section.

• Introduce regex pattern to check username syntax
• Guide the viewer through how the program works
• Show user both a failure and success scenario

Arrays The viewer needs to know how to declare and work with Go’s array data structure.

• Show the viewer how to declare an array
• Show the viewer how to create a matrix using arrays
• Show the viewer how to print the matrix using 2 for loops

Slices The viewer needs to know how to declare and work with Go’s slice data structure.

• Show the viewer how to declare a slice
• Show the viewer how to create sub slices
• Show the viewer how to remove and add a new element to a slice

Maps The viewer needs to know how to declare and work with Go’s map data structure.

• Show the viewer how to declare a map
• Show the viewer how to build the map with key-value pairs
• Show the viewer how to sort the map alphabetically by key

Types and Interfaces The viewer needs to know how to declare and work with Go's user defined types and interfaces.

• Show the viewer how to declare a type
• Demonstrate how a type can implement an interface
• Demonstrate the usefulness of the empty interface type

Social Media Post The viewer needs to know how to create an instance of their own user defined type.

• Show the viewer how to declare a type representing a Social Media Post
• Demonstrate how to create a map of string aliases to state value constants
• Demonstrate how to create a new instance of the Social Media Post

Concurrency Versus Parallelism The viewer needs to know the difference between concurrency and parallelism.

• Define and illustrate an example of concurrency.
• Define and illustrate an example of parallelism.
• Reveal how the illustrated examples relate to single/multi core processors.

Goroutines The viewer needs to what a goroutine is and how to invoke a function as a goroutine.

• Define what a goroutine is
• Show how a function can be invoked as a goroutine
• Demonstrate an example of making the program wait for the goroutine to finish.

Channels The viewer needs to learn what a channel is, and how to use them.

• Define a channel and introduce the arrow operator
• Show an example of how to send and receive messages through it
• Show an example of a buffered channel.

Range Over Channels The viewer needs to know how to range over channels.

• Inform the viewer that we can iterate over each element as it gets received from the channel.
• Show that we can call the close function on the channel before ranging over the channel.
• Show how to to drain the message queue by ranging over the channel

Mutexes and Wait Groups The viewer needs to know how to use Go’s synchronization primitives.

• Show the viewer an example of a race condition
• Show the viewer how to use a mutex to solve the race condition.
• Show the viewer how to concurrently get web site responses using wait groups

Concurrent Pi Computation The viewer needs a practical example of using concurrency to compute the value of Pi.

• Introduce the viewer to the Nilakantha series to calculate Pi
• Show the viewer how to concurrently compute Pi using goroutines and channels
• Show the successful calculation of Pi to 11 decimal places using the program

The Go Tool Chain The viewer needs a walkthrough of the tools that come included with Go.

• Show the user the full list of commands that come with Go
• Walk the user through each command in the list
• Show examples of the most commonly used commands

Documentation in Go The viewer needs to know about Go’s documentation functionality.

• Introduce the user to accessing documentation using go doc
• Show how to view documentation by running the web server
• Show how the documentation gets automatically generated

Testing in Go The user needs to know how to how Go’s automated unit testing system works.

• Introduce the user to the go test command
• Show an example of an existing unit test
• Show an execution of a suite of unit tests

Unit Testing the Username Syntax Checker The viewer needs to know how to create a suite of unit tests to verify the functionality of a custom package.

• Acquaint the user to the custom package we will be testing
• Walk through the user through the tests in the suite
• Show the execution of all the test suite

An Introduction to HTTP The viewer needs a brief introduction to the most basic concepts of the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP).

• Explain how a HTTP transaction works between client and server
• Show some commonly used HTTP request methods
• Show some common response codes and explain their meaning

The net/http Package The viewer needs an introduction to Go’s net/http package.

• Introduce the net/http package’s Get function
• Show an example of using the Get function
• Demonstrate the Get request in a sample run

A Go Web Server Instance The viewer needs to learn how to create their own web server instance using the net/http package.

• Show the viewer how to register handler functions
• Show the viewer how to create an HTTP server instance
• Show examples of the web server handling various requests

Go Essentials for Full Stack Web Development - Quiz Go Essentials for Full Stack Web Development. 29 lectures 03:14:44 Go Essentials for Full Stack Web Development - The Course Overview This video provides an overview of the entire course. A Brief Introduction to Programming This video is intended to teach some basic programming concepts for viewers that are completely new to programming.

• Know what a computer program is
• Understand why programming languages are important
• Learn basic programming concepts

The Gist of Go This video shows the benefits of learning Go.

• Learn Go’s design considerations
• Know about Go’s simplicity
• Get to know the other top benefits found in Go

Installing Go This video shows how to install Go on your computer.

• Go through the Go installation process
• Know the important Go installation details
• Get introduced to the go command

Configuring Go The video shows how to setup your own Go development environment.

• Learn how to set up the proper environment variables
• Walk through writing and running a Go program
• Get introduced to vim-go to the user

Basics - Variable Declaration, Built-in Types, Constants The viewer is in need of knowing Go basics, including performing variable declaration, knowing Go’s built-in types, and working with constants.

• Show the viewer how to declare variables
• Show the viewer Go’s available built-in types
• Show the viewer how to declare and use constants

Packages The viewer needs to know how to both import packages and create their own.

• Show the viewer the significance of importing packages
• Show the viewer how to create their own package
• Show how to use the package the user created

Functions The viewer needs to learn what a function is, how to declare them in Go.

• Inform the viewer of what a function is
• Show viewer how to declare a function in Go
• Explain details about the various function types in Go

Conditional and Loops The viewer needs to know how to make use of Go’s control structures.

• Demonstrate conditional if-else blocks to the viewer
• Demonstrate the switch statement to the viewer
• Demonstrate the for loop and its various uses

Command-line Program The viewer needs to know how to create a command line program that accepts command line arguments and prints usage information to the user of the program.

• Demonstrate how to accept command line arguments
• Demonstrate how to accept command line flags
• Demonstrate the help flag included in the program

Username Syntax Checker The viewer needs a practical example showcasing all the things that they learned in this section.

• Introduce regex pattern to check username syntax
• Guide the viewer through how the program works
• Show user both a failure and success scenario

Arrays The viewer needs to know how to declare and work with Go’s array data structure.

• Show the viewer how to declare an array
• Show the viewer how to create a matrix using arrays
• Show the viewer how to print the matrix using 2 for loops

Slices The viewer needs to know how to declare and work with Go’s slice data structure.

• Show the viewer how to declare a slice
• Show the viewer how to create sub slices
• Show the viewer how to remove and add a new element to a slice

Maps The viewer needs to know how to declare and work with Go’s map data structure.

• Show the viewer how to declare a map
• Show the viewer how to build the map with key-value pairs
• Show the viewer how to sort the map alphabetically by key

Types and Interfaces The viewer needs to know how to declare and work with Go's user defined types and interfaces.

• Show the viewer how to declare a type
• Demonstrate how a type can implement an interface
• Demonstrate the usefulness of the empty interface type

Social Media Post The viewer needs to know how to create an instance of their own user defined type.

• Show the viewer how to declare a type representing a Social Media Post
• Demonstrate how to create a map of string aliases to state value constants
• Demonstrate how to create a new instance of the Social Media Post

Concurrency Versus Parallelism The viewer needs to know the difference between concurrency and parallelism.

• Define and illustrate an example of concurrency.
• Define and illustrate an example of parallelism.
• Reveal how the illustrated examples relate to single/multi core processors.

Goroutines The viewer needs to what a goroutine is and how to invoke a function as a goroutine.

• Define what a goroutine is
• Show how a function can be invoked as a goroutine
• Demonstrate an example of making the program wait for the goroutine to finish.

Channels The viewer needs to learn what a channel is, and how to use them.

• Define a channel and introduce the arrow operator
• Show an example of how to send and receive messages through it
• Show an example of a buffered channel.

Range Over Channels The viewer needs to know how to range over channels uring Go The video shows how to setup your...