This worksshop will teach all the fundamental topics related Go programming. The participants are expected to have good programming skill with any other programming language (Python, Ruby, Java, C# etc.). Participants can ask questions throught the workshop time. If the explanation requires more time and if it affects the the timeline, the discussion will be advanced to the end of session. Here is a brief outline of the session:

Total duration: 6 hours excluding lunch & tea breaks

Introduction (Time: 30 min.)

Welcome message: “Miles to Go: Golang Workshop”
About Me - Why presenting this workshop? - My background & experience with Go
Participant’s introductions
Software developer skills (5 minute group discussion) - Make participants to speak (Icebreaker)
Explain the plan for the workshop - briefly go through the agenda for the day
Few basic facts about Go - motivational speech comparing with other languages (10 min.)
Hello world program - show and run hello world from browser - explain the program structure
More reasons to use Go: Simplicity, Consistency, Readability, Safety (Type safety, Memory safety), Speed

Development Enviroment (Time: 30 min.)

Installation - high level overview of installation - environment variables: GOROOT & GOPATH
Building and running Go - go run - go build - environment variable: GOOS & GOARCH
Organizing code - workspace directory structure ($GOPATH) - project folder structure hosted in Github
Getting third party code - “go get” command
Formatting Go code - “go fmt” command

Fundamentals (Time: 1 hr.)

Comments - C style - C++ style
Primitive types
Variables
Constants
Pointers
Interface
Errors
Command line arguments
Packages

Control structures (Time: 30 min.)

If Conditions
For Loop
Switch statement
Defer statement
Exercise

Data Structures (Time: 30 min.)

Structs
Slices and Arrays
Maps
Exercise

Functions & Methods (Time: 45 min.)

Type declarations
Function declarations
Method declaration
Exercise

Interfaces (Time: 45 min)

Defining interface
Exercise

Concurrency (Time: 1 hr.)

Goroutines
Channels - send & receive
Mutex
WaitGroup
Exercise

Q&A (Time: 30 min.)

This time will be used for further clarification about any topic that is discussed during the session.

Rootconf 2016

Rootconf 2016