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• Go Programming Language by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Preface
• The Origins of Go
• The Go Project
• Go Programming Language by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Organization of the Book
• Where to Find More Information
• Go Programming Language by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Acknowledgments

• 1. Golang Tutorial
• 1.1. Hello, World
• 1.2. Command-Line Arguments
• 1.3. Finding Duplicate Lines
• 1.4. Animated GIFs
• 1.5. Fetching a URL
• 1.6. Fetching URLs Concurrently
• 1.7. A Web Server
• 1.8. Loose Ends

• 2. Program Structure
• 2.1. Names
• 2.2. Declarations
• 2.3. Variables
• 2.4. Assignments
• 2.5. Type Declarations
• 2.6. Packages and Files
• 2.7. Scope

• 3. Basic Data Types
• 3.1. Integers
• 3.2. Floating-Point Numbers
• 3.3. Complex Numbers
• 3.4. Booleans
• 3.5. Strings
• 3.6. Constants

• 4. Composite Types
• 4.1. Arrays
• 4.2. Slices
• 4.3. Maps
• 4.4. Structs
• 4.5. JSON
• 4.6. Text and HTML Templates

• 5. Functions
• 5.1. Function Declarations
• 5.2. Recursion
• 5.3. Multiple Return Values
• 5.4. Errors
• 5.5. Function Values
• 5.6. Anonymous Functions
• 5.7. Variadic Functions
• 5.8. Deferred Function Calls
• 5.9. Panic
• 5.10. Recover

• 6. Methods
• 6.1. Method Declarations
• 6.2. Methods with a Pointer Receiver
• 6.3. Composing Types by Struct Embedding
• 6.4. Method Values and Expressions
• 6.5. Example - Bit Vector Type
• 6.6. Encapsulation

• 7. Interfaces
• 7.1. Interfaces as Contracts
• 7.2. Interface Types
• 7.3. Interface Satisfaction
• 7.4. Parsing Flags with flag.Value
• 7.5. Interface Values
• 7.6. Sorting with sort.Interface
• 7.7. The http.Handler Interface
• 7.8. The error Interface
• 7.9. Example - Expression Evaluator
• 7.10. Type Assertions
• 7.11. Discriminating Errors with Type Assertions
• 7.12. Querying Behaviors with Interface Type Assertions
• 7.13. Type Switches
• 7.14. Example - Token-Based XML Decoding
• 7.15. A Few Words of Advice

• 8. Goroutines and Channels
• 8.1. Goroutines
• 8.2. Example - Concurrent Clock Server
• 8.3. Example - Concurrent Echo Server
• 8.4. Channels
• 8.5. Looping in Parallel
• 8.6. Example - Concurrent Web Crawler
• 8.7. Multiplexing with select
• 8.8. Example - Concurrent Directory Traversal
• 8.9. Cancellation
• 8.10. Example - Chat Server

• 9. Concurrency with Shared Variables
• 9.1. Race Conditions
• 9.2. Mutual Exclusion - sync.Mutex
• 9.3. Read/Write Mutexes - sync.RWMutex
• 9.4. Memory Synchronization
• 9.5. Lazy Initialization - sync.Once
• 9.6. The Race Detector
• 9.7. Example - Concurrent Non-Blocking Cache
• 9.8. Goroutines and Threads

• 10. Packages and the Go Tool
• 10.1. Introduction
• 10.2. Import Paths
• 10.3. The Package Declaration
• 10.4. Import Declarations
• 10.5. Blank Imports
• 10.6. Packages and Naming
• 10.7. The Go Tool

• 11. Testing
• 11.1. The go test Tool
• 11.2. Test Functions
• 11.3. Coverage
• 11.4. Benchmark Functions
• 11.5. Profiling
• 11.6. Example Functions

• 12. Reflection
• 12.1. Why Reflection
• 12.2. reflect.Type and reflect.Value
• 12.3. Display, a Recursive Value Printer
• 12.4. Example - Encoding S-Expressions
• 12.5. Setting Variables with reflect.Value
• 12.6. Example - Decoding S-Expressions
• 12.7. Accessing Struct Field Tags
• 12.8. Displaying the Methods of a Type
• 12.9. A Word of Caution

• 13. Low-Level Programming
• 13.1. unsafe.Sizeof, Alignof, and Offsetof
• 13.2. unsafe.Pointer
• 13.3. Example - Deep Equivalence
• 13.4. Calling C Code with cgo
• 13.5. Another Word of Caution