Job Ready Go: Land Your First Role with One of the Leading Modern Programming Languages
- 7h 52m
- Haythem Balti, Kimberly A. Weiss
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2022
Tackle GoLang with practical and employment-focused instruction
In Job Ready Go, software education guru Dr. Haythem Balti delivers an essential and hands-on guide to Go, an open-source programming language developed by Google engineers to combine the most sought-after capabilities of other programming languages, including Java, C#, and C++. In the book, the author walks you through all the most critical skills necessary for successful, on-the-job Go programming.
You’ll discover:
- How to get started with Go, including how to run, build, and test your own go programs
- Understand control flow and data structures in Go including arrays, slices, maps, and pointerss
- How to leverage structs, interfaces, and methods to organize and reuse code
- How to leverage go to process data, access different types of files and develop APIs
- Leverage concurrency and gRPCs to create complex and interconnected systems.
Job Ready Go offers readers straightforward and elegant instruction based on the renowned mthree Global Academy and Software Guild training program. It’s an essential read for aspiring Go developers looking for a fast-track to developing real-world skills demanded by employers..
About the Author
HAYTHEM BALTI, PhD, is an associate dean at Wiley Edge. He has created courses used by thousands of Software Guild and Wiley Edge (formerly mthree) alumni to learn Go, Java, Python, and other development and data science skills.
KIMBERLY A. WEISS is a Senior Manager of Curriculum Operations for Wiley Edge. She has worked with multiple universities as well as corporate training settings to develop interactive instructional content appropriate for the target learners and course goals, specializing in software development courses.
In this Book
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Getting Started with Go
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Understanding Go Basics
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Storing with Variables
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Performing Operations
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Controlling Program Flow with Conditional Statements
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Controlling Program Flow with Loops
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Pulling it All Together—Income Tax Calculator
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Using Functions
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Accessing Arrays
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Working with Pointers
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Organizing with Structs
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Accessing Slices
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Manipulating Maps
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Creating Methods
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Adding Interfaces
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Pulling it All Together—Building a Burger Shop
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Handling Errors
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Concurrency
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Sorting and Data Processing
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File I/O and OS Operations
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Pulling it All Together—Word Analysis in Go
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Testing
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API Development Tutorial
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Working with gRPC
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Pulling it All Together—Using Smart Data
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Using Modules
