MVP course - Go Learn

History of the language
Basic concepts and the syntax
- Packages and files
- Types and interfaces
- Structures and constructs
- Visibility and scope
- Pointers and slices
- Error handling
How to verify your work with tests
Project structure and standard files
Solve the problem of; automate X on file change
- Concurrency and channels
- Planning and refactoring
Documentation and application flags
Build and release

After this course you will be familiar with

and most importantly, recognize when you have reached an MVP.

You can download the examples that where produced during the course ex.tgz. Unpack it in $GOPATH/src/go-learn/.

First day

Get to know the language and it's tools.

09.00	history, the people define MVP godoc -http ":6060"
09.30	go test -v declare variables, short long, single/multi existing types, int, string, byte, rune if else and operators variable scope switch, single/multi and default fallthrough
10.00	hello world naming files, x_test.go testing package hello world func t.Log, t.Error, t.Fatal gofmt, readability is key go test -bench
10.20	BREAK
10.30	slice, make and append len and cap Examples GrowSlice(max int) example ranges str[1:4] for loop, range, _(blank identifier) labels, break and continue goto
11.00	own types constants and iota structs, field visibility pointers func, naming arguments, visibility constructors methods errors
11.30	go env and GOPATH go get -u github.com/gregoryv/uncover/... go test -coverprofile
12.00	LUNCH
13.00	Exercises cat FILE contains WORD FILE, exit code 0\|1 mygrep WORD FILE json2txt FILE.json, A=1, B=2
15.00	END

Concurrency features and create a tool which you can actually use.

09.00	Walkthrough of day 1 exercises Example tests interfaces and interface{} named return errors defer panic
10.00	channels range over channel ok, more := <- chan select go statement directions
10.20	BREAK
10.30	directory structure, package/cmd/X README.md, CHANGELOG.md, CONTRIBUTING.md scripting, go run x.go package main and imports naming packages, go-learn becomes learn package namespace and . compiling, go build x.go standalone, CGO_ENABLED=0 flag package and usage ldflags "-X main.version=0.1.0" dep vendor go mod
11.00	Documenting, package and funcs Examples as documentation
12.00	LUNCH
13.00	Exercises ls DIR react DIR
14.50	Questions and evaluation
15.00	END