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Go is a simple, fast, and reliable programming language for building software. Learn how to install Go, read the documentation, take tutorials, and find books and courses to advance your skills.
Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google [12] by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. [4] It is syntactically similar to C, but also has memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, [7] and CSP -style concurrency. [13]
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- Write Some Code
- Call Code in An External Package
- Write More Code
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Some programming experience.The code here is pretty simple, but it helps to know something about functions.A tool to edit your code.Any text editor you have will work fine. Most text editors have good support for Go. The most popular are VSCode (free), GoLand (paid), and Vim (free).A command terminal.Go works well using any terminal on Linux and Mac, and on PowerShell or cmd in Windows.Get started with Hello, World. 1. Open a command prompt and cd to your home directory. On Linux or Mac: cd On Windows: cd %HOMEPATH% 2. Create a hello directory for your first Go source code. For example, use the following commands: mkdir hellocd hello 3. Enable dependency tracking for your code. When your code imports packages contained in other m...
When you need your code to do something that might have been implemented by someone else, you can look for a package that has functions you can use in your code. 1. Make your printed message a little more interesting with a function from an external module. 1.1. Visit pkg.go.dev and search for a "quote" package. 1.2. Locate and click the rsc.io/quo...
With this quick introduction, you got Go installed and learned some of the basics. To write some more code with another tutorial, take a look at Create a Go module.
Learn the basics of Go programming with this tutorial. Install Go, write some code, run it, and call functions from external packages.
Go is an open-source language supported by Google that is easy to learn and great for teams. It has built-in concurrency, a robust standard library, and a large ecosystem of partners, communities, and tools.
Go is a fast, simple, and efficient language that compiles to machine code and supports garbage collection and reflection. Learn how Google uses Go to build production services for Chrome, Kubernetes, Vitess, and more.
Go is an open-source programming language supported by Google. Join our community and learn about working with the Go Programming Language.
Learn the Go programming language in this full course for beginners. You'll practice writing performant, idiomatic Go with these hands-on lessons and challen...
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