Get Programming with Go

A beginner-friendly, hands-on introduction to the Go programming language. The course is structured into small, manageable lessons with a space-exploration theme, covering imperative programming, types, functions, methods, collections, state, and concurrency.

Discover the joy of coding with Go through small lessons and seven spacefaring capstone projects.

Author: Nathan Youngman, Roger Peppé

Acknowledgments: Jennifer Stout, Marina Michaels, Matthew Merkes, Joel Kotarski, Aleksandar Dragosavljević, Renée French, Olga Shalakhina, Erick Zelaya, April Milne, Monica Kamsvaag.

1. Define the Go programming language and its primary use cases.
2. Explain the role of the Go compiler and its advantages over interpreters.
3. Navigate the Go Playground to write, compile, and run code.
4. Correctly structure Go code using the mandatory "one true brace style" to avoid syntax errors.
5. Manage data using various variable declaration techniques and arithmetic assignment operators.
6. Generate pseudorandom numbers and implement conditional logic using branching and logical operators.
7. Declare and format floating-point variables using float32 and float64 with specific width and precision.
8. Identify and mitigate errors caused by floating-point inaccuracies and integer wrap-around.
9. Utilize the big package and untyped constants to handle numbers exceeding standard bit-size limits.
10. Define and invoke functions using parameters, arguments, and variadic syntax.