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Great Go: Level One
on-demand course

Great Go: Level One

with Brett McLaughlin
December 2009
Beginner
1h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Overview

Great Go will help you quickly and effectively begin programming in the brand new programming language from Google, Go. By the time you're through these lessons, you'll be easily apply your existing programming skills to this new -- and often surprising -- language. Loops, branching, arrays, vectors, and the struct keyword are all covered in this crash course for existing programmers looking to add Go to their skill set.

You'll do more than just transition your existing skills to Go, though. You'll pick up Go-specific techniques and semantics, like returning multiple values from a single function and competently handling slices. You'll also get the straight scoop on where Go shines, and where it's just odd and a bit clunky. Don't wait a months for a book when you can start writing Go code today.Great Go will help you quickly and effectively begin programming in the brand new programming language from Google, Go. By the time you're through these lessons, you'll be easily apply your existing programming skills to this new -- and often surprising -- language. Loops, branching, arrays, vectors, and the struct keyword are all covered in this crash course for existing programmers looking to add Go to their skill set.

You'll do more than just transition your existing skills to Go, though. You'll pick up Go-specific techniques and semantics, like returning multiple values from a single function and competently handling slices. You'll also get the straight scoop on where Go shines, and where it's just odd and a bit clunky. Don't wait a months for a book when you can start writing Go code today.

When you buy Great Go, you get access to an entire video library of lessons-including lessons that aren't available yet! Here's the scoop: we're continually adding new sections that take you further into Go. We're also updating existing lessons and creating new ones in response to your questions, along with special "challenge lessons" that will test your skills. All of this is yours with Great Go.

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