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Go Programming Language For Dummies

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Ready, set, program with Go!

Now is the perfect time to learn the Go Programming Language. It’s one of the most in-demand languages among tech recruiters and developers love its simplicity and power. Go Programming Language For Dummies is an easy way to add this top job skill to your toolkit. Written for novice and experienced coders alike, this book traverses basic syntax, writing functions, organizing data, building packages, and interfacing with APIs.

Go—or GoLang, as it’s also known—has proven to be a strong choice for developers creating applications for the cloud-based world we live in. This book will put you on the path to using the language that’s created some of today’s leading web applications, so you can steer your career where you want to Go!

Learn how Go works and start writing programs and modules
Install and implement the most powerful third-party Go packages
Use Go in conjunction with web services and MySQL databases
Keep your codebase organized and use Go to structure data

With this book, you can join the growing numbers of developers using Go to create 21st century solutions. Step inside to take start writing code that puts data in users’ hands.

Ready, set, program with Go!

Now is the perfect time to learn the Go Programming Language. It’s one of the most in-demand languages among tech recruiters and developers love its simplicity and power. Go Programming Language For Dummies is an easy way to add this top job skill to your toolkit. Written for novice and experienced coders alike, this book traverses basic syntax, writing functions, organizing data, building packages, and interfacing with APIs.

Go—or GoLang, as it’s also known—has proven to be a strong choice for developers creating applications for the cloud-based world we live in. This book

will put you on the path to using the language that’s created some of today’s leading web applications, so you can steer your career where you want to Go!

Learn how Go works and start writing programs and modules
Install and implement the most powerful third-party Go packages
Use Go in conjunction with web services and MySQL databases
Keep your codebase organized and use Go to structure data

With this book, you can join the growing numbers of developers using Go to create 21st century solutions. Step inside to take start writing code that puts data in users’ hands.

Go Programming Language For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Go is a popular open-source programming language (designed at Google in 2007) used for a variety of different applications, including cloud-based or server-side applications, DevOps and site reliability automation, command-line tools, artificial intelligence, and data science. You can try out Go (sometimes referred to as Golang) programming language online — you just need to know where to go. You also may want to know how to convert JSON to Go or use Go in Docker. This Cheat Sheet tells you how to do all of these things. [caption id="attachment_284336" align="alignnone" width="556"] Source: © Eny Setiyowati / Shutterstock.com[/caption]

About The Author

Wei-Meng Lee is founder of Developer Learning Solutions, specializing in hands-on technology training. His name regularly appears in publications like DevX.com, MobiForge.com, and CODE Magazine. He is also the author of SwiftUI For Dummies, Beginning Swift Programming, Python Machine Learning, and Learning WatchKit Programming.

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