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Go Programming Language by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan

The Go Programming Language by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan

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Go Programming Language by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Table of Contents

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

• 1. 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

• Series: Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series
• Paperback: 398 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (November 5, 2015)
• ISBN-10: 9780134190440
• ISBN-13: 978-0134190440
• ASIN: 0134190440
• 0134190440

By L. Hall

5.0 out of 5 stars

Carefully crafted to make you competent - if you are patient enough give yourself the time to learn

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2018

Not a book for the impatient; but if you're a novice, this is the book to trust to take you through from beginner to competence and well on your way to proficiency. I've been a professional C/UNIX developer since the mid-80's and Java and Python for the past 20 years. Don't get me wrong: Go is not a difficult language to learn; but I thought I could pick it up in a few hours. There are serious ground-shattering differences between Go and everything else. Although it borrows liberally from C, Java, and Python - it really is a different approach because the language authors aren't afraid to address the shortcomings made in those and other languages for the sake of conforming with the ideas long held to be “norms”.

Case in point: Go builds statically-bound executables. No more runtime dependency woes from mis-matched DLL / .so versions.

Another example: a radically different approach to polymorphism and encapsulation leading to an easier and cleaner object model than any other.

The more I learn about Go, the more I am convinced that it will eventually overtake C/C++ as the defacto standard for system level development - and may even challenge Java and the dynamic languages for business-critical applications.“

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