This is a quick overview of the Go programming language. It aims to be a quick tour of language features and simple guide to get you to a bare-bones programming environment.
It makes use of the presentation tool baked into Go. That means you can run this presentation on your own laptop if you already have Go installed.
If you do, clone this repository and run the following from within it:
go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/presentpresent
It should tell you what port to open to view the presentation.
- Basic Hello World
- Simple language features (structs, loops, errors, slices)
- HTTP API calls and JSON processing
- Parallelizing a series of synchronous IO calls with goroutines and channels
- Using baked-in profiling tools to analyze performance
- Organizing code with structs and interfaces
The slides include code lifted from examples you can run yourself. You can
run go run examples.go to see what examples are available and how to run them.
If you want to run the New York Times API examples, you'll need to register for an API Key from the New York Times Developers site.
Either add your key to the API_KEY environment variable in your session, or
add it in a .key file at the root of this directory and ./run.sh will
inject it into your program.
Did you find something fishy? Do you see something that should be covered that isn't?
Feel free to add something in the Issues and I'd be happy to take a look!