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Programming in Go: Creating Applications for the 21st Century
- By Mark Summerfield
- Published May 4, 2012 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Developer's Library series.
- Copyright 2012
- Dimensions: 7" x 9"
- Pages: 480
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-77463-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-77463-7
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Product Author Bios
Mark Summerfield is an independent trainer, consultant, and technical editor and writer, specializing in C++, Qt, and Python. Mark graduated with first class honors in Computer Science from the University of Wales Swansea, UK, and later qualified as a teacher. Prior to starting Qtrac Ltd., he spent many years in the software industry working as a programmer, consultant, and technical writer. He worked as Trolltech's documentation manager from 2000 to 2004. He lives in Wales.
Your Hands-On Guide to Go, the Revolutionary New Language Designed for Concurrency, Multicore Hardware, and Programmer Convenience
Today’s most exciting new programming language, Go, is designed from the ground up to help you easily leverage all the power of today’s multicore hardware. With this guide, pioneering Go programmer Mark Summerfield shows how to write code that takes full advantage of Go’s breakthrough features and idioms.
Both a tutorial and a language reference, Programming in Go brings together all the knowledge you need to evaluate Go, think in Go, and write high-performance software with Go. Summerfield presents multiple idiom comparisons showing exactly how Go improves upon older languages, calling special attention to Go’s key innovations. Along the way, he explains everything from the absolute basics through Go’s lock-free channel-based concurrency and its flexible and unusual duck-typing type-safe approach to object-orientation.
Throughout, Summerfield’s approach is thoroughly practical. Each chapter offers multiple live code examples designed to encourage experimentation and help you quickly develop mastery. Wherever possible, complete programs and packages are presented to provide realistic use cases, as well as exercises. Coverage includes
- Quickly getting and installing Go, and building and running Go programs
- Exploring Go’s syntax, features, and extensive standard library
- Programming Boolean values, expressions, and numeric types
- Creating, comparing, indexing, slicing, and formatting strings
- Understanding Go’s highly efficient built-in collection types: slices and maps
- Using Go as a procedural programming language
- Discovering Go’s unusual and flexible approach to object orientation
- Mastering Go’s unique, simple, and natural approach to fine-grained concurrency
- Reading and writing binary, text, JSON, and XML files
- Importing and using standard library packages, custom packages, and third-party packages
- Creating, documenting, unit testing, and benchmarking custom packages
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Everything anyone could need to begin with., By Cikkle (Upstate NY, US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Programming in Go: Creating Applications for the 21st Century (Developer's Library) (Paperback)
This is a resoundingly thorough walkthrough of the Go language and all of its features and idioms. Despite being a ground up introduction, the book appears to be written with the assumption of the reader having some basic programming experience; so while it begins with the usual foundational explanations of types and syntax, the wording is refreshingly precise, dense and informative and continues this way going forward. Most who don't have a need to be talked down to but still would appreciate clear writing and a thorough detailing of the language from the bottom up would find this book is really well-suited.While the book assumes familiarity with programming in general it is not at all withholding of examples or clarification, and indeed it errs on the side of caution in presenting multiple demonstrations of ideas before moving on to the next hurdle. Examples abound throughout, in fact nearly all chapters tend to have a long block of demonstrations at their end. To some... Read more
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Well written book that teaches solid idiomatic Go programming,
This review is from: Programming in Go: Creating Applications for the 21st Century (Developer's Library) (Paperback)
Programming in Go by Mark Summerfield teaches to program in Go the Go way. This book is for those who are familiar with basic programming concepts and are interested in learning the Go programming language. Programming in Go is written in a hybrid tutorial/reference style. The coverage is comprehensive enough for it to be considered a reference, but it also includes detailed examples as well as exercises that make it suitable for a self-learner.In my opinion the coverage of the Go language is both thorough and comprehensible with the material structured in a way that optimises learning programming the Go way. In the very beginning readers are introduced to Go with 5 short but effective examples, which provide an outline of Go's syntax and features. Consecutive chapters lay down a foundation and build on it. The author is careful to point out good Go style. Separate chapters are dedicate to the coverage of strings, object-oriented programming, and concurrent programming,... Read more
This is THE Go language book to get., By
This review is from: Programming in Go: Creating Applications for the 21st Century (Developer's Library) (Paperback)
First let's get the negatives out of the way. I only had two things I could quibble about. The first is that there are some rare moments where the author gets a little repetitive. The other is that the exercises at times spill over from outside the subject of the chapter they are in, such as when dealing with the numeric types in chapter two, you are also drawn into to some string formatting, which was in the following chapter, and some network programming.And yet, in spite of this hair splitting on my part, I have to say that this is one of the most well-written books I've read on any technical subject. The wording is simple yet eloquent, precise yet not monotonous. The topics are masterfully cross-referenced so the reader can easily go to other sections in order to get refreshed on previous concepts or to skip ahead in the enthusiastic pursuit of some particular new knowledge. If you want to know Go (aka "golang" for those doing online searches), get this... Read more |
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An Overview of Go in Five Examples
Table of Contents
Tables xv
Introduction 1
Why Go? 1
The Structure of the Book 4
Acknowledgments 5
Chapter 1: An Overview in Five Examples 7
1.1. Getting Going 7
1.2. Editing, Compiling, and Running 9
1.3. Hello Who? 14
1.4. Big Digits–Two-Dimensional Slices 16
1.5. Stack–Custom Types with Methods 21
1.6. Americanise–Files, Maps, and Closures 29
1.7. Polar to Cartesian–Concurrency 40
1.8. Exercise 48
Chapter 2: Booleans and Numbers 51
2.1. Preliminaries 51
2.2. Boolean Values and Expressions 56
2.3. Numeric Types 57
2.4. Example: Statistics 72
2.5. Exercises 78
Chapter 3: Strings 81
3.1. Literals, Operators, and Escapes 83
3.2. Comparing Strings 86
3.3. Characters and Strings 87
3.4. Indexing and Slicing Strings 90
3.5. String Formatting with the Fmt Package 93
3.6. Other String-Related Packages 106
3.7. Example: M3u2pls 130
3.8. Exercises 135
Chapter 4: Collection Types 139
4.1. Values, Pointers, and Reference Types 140
4.2. Arrays and Slices 148
4.3. Maps 164
4.4. Examples 171
4.5. Exercises 180
Chapter 5: Procedural Programming 185
5.1. Statement Basics 186
5.2. Branching 192
5.3. Looping with For Statements 203
5.4. Communication and Concurrency Statements 205
5.5. Defer, Panic, and Recover 212
5.6. Custom Functions 219
5.7. Example: Indent Sort 244
5.8. Exercises 250
Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming 253
6.1. Key Concepts 254
6.2. Custom Types 256
6.3. Interfaces 265
6.4. Structs 275
6.5. Examples 282
6.6. Exercises 311
Chapter 7: Concurrent Programming 315
7.1. Key Concepts317
7.2. Examples 322
7.3. Exercises 357
Chapter 8: File Handling 361
8.1. Custom Data Files 362
8.2. Archive Files 397
8.3. Exercises 405
Chapter 9: Packages 407
9.1. Custom Packages 408
9.2. Third-Party Packages 417
9.3. A Brief Survey of Go’s Commands 418
9.4. A Brief Survey of the Go Standard Library 419
9.5. Exercises 431
Appendix A: Epilogue 435
Appendix B: The Dangers of Software Patents 437
Appendix C: Selected Bibliography 441
Index 443
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