Job Ready Go

About the Authors v About the Technical Writer vi About the Technical Editor vii Acknowledgments viii Introduction xxi Part I: The Basics of the Go Programming Language 1 Lesson 1: Getting Started with Go 3 Lesson 2: Understanding Go Basics 21 Lesson 3: Storing with Variables 39 Lesson 4: Performing Operations 69 Lesson 5: Controlling Program Flow with Conditional Statements 99 Lesson 6: Controlling Program Flow with Loops 123 Lesson 7: Pulling It All Together: Income Tax Calculator 145 Part II: Organizing Code and Data in Go 173 Lesson 8: Using Functions 175 Lesson 9: Accessing Arrays 195 Lesson 10: Working with Pointers 215 Lesson 11: Organizing with Structs 237 Lesson 12: Accessing Slices 263 Lesson 13: Manipulating Maps 287 Lesson 14: Creating Methods 305 Lesson 15: Adding Interfaces 325 Lesson 16: Pulling It All Together: Building a Burger Shop 343 Part III: Creating Job Ready Solutions in Go 377 Lesson 17: Handling Errors 379 Lesson 18: Concurrency 395 Lesson 19: Sorting and Data Processing 421 Lesson 20: File I/O and OS Operations 453 Lesson 21: Pulling It All Together: Word Analysis in Go 485 Part IV: Advanced Topics for Go Development 525 Lesson 22: Testing 527 Lesson 23: API Development Tutorial 561 Lesson 24: Working with gRPC 591 Lesson 25: Pulling It All Together: Using Smart Data 607 Lesson 26: Using Modules 645 Appendix: File Permissions and Access Rights 651 Index 655