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How To Code in Go

How To Code in Go

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Author(s)

By Gopher Guides, Kent Shultz, Kristin Davidson, Anish Singh Walia and Madison Scott-Clary

Introduction

Go (or GoLang) is a modern programming language originally developed by Google that uses high-level syntax similar to scripting languages. It is popular for its minimal syntax and innovative handling of concurrency, as well as for the tools it provides for building native binaries on foreign platforms.

Tutorials in series

Tutorial

How To Code in Go eBook

June 12, 2020
2 min read

Tutorial

How To Install Go and Set Up a Local Programming Environment on Ubuntu 18.04

April 10, 2019
9 min read

Tutorial

How To Install Go and Set Up a Local Programming Environment on macOS

April 10, 2019
5 min read

Tutorial

How To Install Go and Set Up a Local Programming Environment on Windows 10

April 12, 2019
13 min read

Tutorial

How To Write Your First Program in Go

April 10, 2019
6 min read

Tutorial

How To Write Comments in Go

March 29, 2019
11 min read

Tutorial

Understanding Data Types in Go

May 1, 2019
15 min read

Tutorial

An Introduction to Working with Strings in Go

April 23, 2019
4 min read

Tutorial

How To Format Strings in Go

April 23, 2019
5 min read

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