Beginning Go Programming: Build Reliable and Efficient Applications with Go

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R. Hussain, M. ZulfiqarBeginning Go Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8858-0_3

3. Go Recipes: Programming Fundamentals and Basics

Rumeel Hussain¹   and Maryam Zulfiqar²

(1)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

(2)

Lahore, Pakistan

 

Go is a great language. It’s compact, performant, and has great support for concurrency. This chapter covers common programming tasks and shows recipes for completing them. It covers language basics, date/time types, how to work with text files effectively, how to work with structs, and how to handle concurrency.

Numbers and Slices in Go

Listing 3-1 illustrates a Go recipe for calculating the mean of some numbers. The mean is defined ...