Lessons for learning "Go" programing language

The lessons are broken into serveral sections. Each section offers details about the specific topic under discussion.

Attributions

Some of the details have been shamelessly copied from:

• [Effective Go] (http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html)
• [The Go Programming Language Specification] (http://golang.org/ref/spec)
• [The Go Blog] (http://blog.golang.org)

Getting the Material

git clone https://github.com/spuranam/go-learn

or

go get github.com/spuranam/go-learn

or

[download the zip archive] (https://github.com/spuranam/go-learn/archive/master.zip)

Running the code examples

Installing Go

[Vist this page to install Go development tools] (http://golang.org/doc/install)

Build & Run sample

Complie go source file and generate the binary

go build name_of_program

Complie go source file, execute it send the output if any to stdout and throw away the generated binary

go run name_of_program

Compile go source file, and install it in bin subdirectory of your GOPATH

go install name_of_program

Running on go playground

To run these samples on [Go playground, paste the code here] (http://play.golang.org) Please note that go playground is sandboxed environment, with following limitations:

• Time is constant, i.e. it does not change
• No filesystem i.e. you do not have access to the filesystem
• No network .i.e. you can not run an code that imports net package

However the playground allows you get started with the business of learning the language right away, with getting bogged down in setting up the development/learning environment.