Golang for Beginners

Module 1: Introduction to Go

• Structure
• Objective
• A look at software essence
• Evolution of Golang and its success
• Characteristics of Go
• Object-oriented nature
• The analogy with other languages
• Pain points of Go language
• Applications of Golang

Module 2: Environment Setup

• Structure
• Objective
• System requirements
• How to install
• Uninstalling Go

Module 3: Beginning With Go

• Structure
• Objective
• Introduction
• Keywords
• Identifiers

Module 4: Variables, Data Types, and Constants

• Structure
• Objective
• Variables
• Data types
• Constants
• Format specifiers

Module 5: Operator

• Structure
• Objective
• Introduction
• Types of operators
• Operator precedence

Module 6: Control Structures

• Structure
• Objective
• Introduction
• Branching statements
• Looping statements
• Jumping statement

Module 7: Functions

• Calculating Area of Triangle using Arithmetic Operators
• Calculate the Arithmetic Function
• Example of Operators
• Example of Operators Continues

Module 8: Returning Multiple Values from Functions

• Structure
• Objectives
• Introduction
• Declaring functions
• Function arguments and return types
• Calling a function
• Call by value
• Call by reference
• Named return values
• Blank Identifier
  • Using a function as a type
• Anonymous functions
  • Return Anonymous functions
• Closures
• Recursive functions
• The defer keyword
• Variadic function

Module 9: Arrays and Slices

• Structure
• Objective
• Introduction 
  • Declaring an array
  • Initializing an array
  • Need for an array
  • Multidimensional arrays
  • Functions of an array
• Slices
  • Declaring slices
  • Initializing slices
  • Slices from an array
  • Slice from slice
  • Slice from structs
  • Slice internals
  • Slice using the make function
  • Two-dimensional slices
  • Slice functions

Module 10: Strings

• Structure
• Objectives 
• Introduction
  • Functions with strings
• The rune data type
  • Iterate using range keyword
  • Convert a slice of runes to string
  • Convert a slice of bytes to string
  • Immutable nature of the string
• Strings package
  • Functions with strings

Module 11: Pointers

• Structure
• Objectives
• Introduction
• Need for pointers
• Declare pointers
• Initializing pointers
• Dereferencing pointers
• Manipulating pointers
• Creating pointers with new
• Nested pointers
• Array of pointer
• Passing pointers to a function

Module 12: Structures

• Structure
• Objectives
• Introduction
• Declaring struct
• Initializing struct
• Accessing struct’s field
• Pointer to struct
• A struct with a new function
• Anonymous struct fields
• Nested struct
• Passing structs to functions/copying structs
• Comparing structs

Module 13: Composition

• Structure
• Objectives
• Introduction
• Embedding pointers
• Embedding slice of structs

Module 14: Interfaces and Polymorphism

• Structure
• Objectives
• Introduction
• Declaring Interface
• Implementing interface
• Empty interface
• Implementing multiple interfaces
• Type assertion
• Type switch
• Embedding interfaces
• Interfaces as polymorphism

Module 15: Maps

• Structure
• Objectives 
• Introduction
  • Use of maps
• Declaring a map
• Initializing a map
• Map operations
• Map as a reference type

Module 16: Concurrency with Go

• Structure
• Objectives
• Introduction
• How parallelism is different from concurrency 
• Thread
• Goroutines 
• Multiple Goroutines
• Goroutines at multiple cores
• Waiting for Goroutine to finish

Module 17: Mutex and Channels

• Structure
• Objectives
• Declaring channels
• Channel operations
• Deadlock
• Closing a channel
• The direction of a channel
• The select keyword
• Data race in Go 
  • Race condition
  • Check for data race 
• Mutex 
  • RWMutex

Module 18: Error Handling

• Structure
• Objectives
• Introduction
• Error package
• Defer statement
• Panic
• Recovery

Module 19: Reflection

• Structure
• Objectives
• Introduction
• The reflect package ​
  • Type
  • Value
  • Kind
  • NumField()
  • Field
  • String(), Int() & Float()
• Laws of reflection

Module 20: Building Web Application

• Structure
• Objectives
• Introduction to web development
• HTML
• JavaScript  
  • Internal JavaScript
  • External JavaScript 
• CSS
• GopherJS
• Database
• Building an applicationn from the browser