Go for Java Programmers: Learn the Google Go Programming Language

Part IFirst Look at Go

First Look at Go

Welcome, future Gophers! Prepare for a journey of discovery and enrichment.

This is a book to help you learn the Go (aka Golang¹) programming language and many of the Go standard libraries in order to become successful Gophers. This text assumes no prior knowledge of Go and is oriented for use by experienced Java programmers. This book is generally organized using a comparison between Java features and if/how these similar features exist in Go.

This book assumes the reader knows Java already; it is not a Java tutorial. This book also assumes the reader has basic competence in fundamental programming concepts and procedural programming techniques.

As it is generally the case for any programming language, it is ...