The Go Programming Language Phrasebook

David Chisnall

May 2012 · Addison-Wesley

About this eBook

The Go Programming Language Phrasebook

Essential Go code and idioms for all facets of the development process

This guide gives you the code “phrases” you need to quickly and effectively complete a wide variety of projects with Go, today’s most exciting new programming language.

Tested, easy-to-adapt code examples illuminate every step of Go development, helping you write highly scalable, concurrent software. You’ll master Go-specific idioms for working with strings, collections, arrays, error handling, goroutines, slices, maps, channels, numbers, dates, times, files, networking, web apps, the runtime, and more.

Concise and Accessible

Easy to carry and easy to use: Ditch all those bulky books for one portable pocket guide

Flexible and Functional

Packed with more than 100 customizable code snippets: Quickly create solid Go code to solve just about any problem

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Ratings and reviews

Just the right amount of detail for getting started in this new language. It really helps in understanding WHY Go is doing things. If you learned C from K & R, you'll appreciate having the language explained at this level of detail.

About the author

David Chisnall is author of Objective-C Phrasebook, Second Edition. He is an active contributor to the GNUstep project and cofounded the Étoilé project to build a desktop environment atop GNUstep. Chisnall has written several articles for informIT.com including a three-part series on Go for Objective-C Programmers.