Go Programming by Example

Agus Kurniawan

PE Press

About this ebook

Go, commonly referred to as golang, is a programming language initially developed at Google in 2007. This book helps you to get started with Go programming. It describes all the elements of the language and illustrates their use with code examples. The following is highlight topics in this book:

* Development Environment

* Go Programming Language

* Arrays, Slices and Maps

* Functions

* Pointers

* Structs and Methods

* String Operations

* File Operations

* Error Handling and Logging

* Building Own Go Package

* Concurrency

* Encoding

* Hashing and Cryptography

* Database Programming

* Socket Programming 

Ratings and reviews

The good part is that most of the book consists of clear and concise code that is easy to read. The bad part is that the code comes from basic (freely available) Go tutorials and by short, sparce, paradoxically full of errors writeups in between one realizes that the author has no idea of whats going on in the code. Its just "write this, run that". Very lazy!

Not a great resource. There are errors in the book (doesn't know what a closure actually is) and over all little more information than syntax examples (and even those are often grossly simplified, eg slices). Better off finding your information online.

There really is not much difference from this book and what you will find out online. The examples are extremely basic so do not expect to find anything advanced. It's a good book for people who know nothing of programming, but read with caution as it's not the best. There are also numerous typos throughout the book.