Today’s most exciting new programming language, Go, is designed from the ground up to help you easily leverage all the power of today’s multicore hardware. With this guide, pioneering Go programmer Mark Summerfield shows how to write code that takes full advantage of Go’s breakthrough features and idioms.

Both a tutorial and a language reference, Programming in Go brings together all the knowledge you need to evaluate Go, think in Go, and write high-performance software with Go. Summerfield presents multiple idiom comparisons showing exactly how Go improves upon older languages, calling special attention to Go’s key innovations. Along the way, he explains everything from the absolute basics through Go’s lock-free channel-based concurrency and its flexible and unusual duck-typing type-safe approach to object-orientation.

Throughout, Summerfield’s approach is thoroughly practical. Each chapter offers multiple live code examples designed to encourage experimentation and help you quickly develop mastery. Wherever possible, complete programs and packages are presented to provide realistic use cases, as well as exercises. Coverage includes

Quickly getting and installing Go, and building and running Go programs
Exploring Go’s syntax, features, and extensive standard library
Programming Boolean values, expressions, and numeric types
Creating, comparing, indexing, slicing, and formatting strings
Understanding Go’s highly efficient built-in collection types: slices and maps
Using Go as a procedural programming language
Discovering Go’s unusual and flexible approach to object orientation
Mastering Go’s unique, simple, and natural approach to fine-grained concurrency
Reading and writing binary, text, JSON, and XML files
Importing and using standard library packages, custom packages, and third-party packages
Creating, documenting, unit testing, and benchmarking custom packages

About the Author:

Mark Summerfield, owner of Qtrac Ltd., is an independent trainer, consultant, technical editor, and writer specializing in Go, Python, C++, Qt, and PyQt. His books include Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt (Prentice Hall, 2007), C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 (with Jasmin Blanchette, Prentice Hall, 2008), Programming in Python 3, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2009), and Advanced Qt Programming (Prentice Hall, 2010).

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Store Description

BooksRun helps to save money on textbooks. We are committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. Please pay close attention to the description of the book and its condition you are ordering. If you have any questions or issues, please make sure to contact us first so we could resolve them. All orders are shipped on the same or the next business day. It usually takes 1 to 5 business days to receive your item if you choose expedited shipping. All orders submitted are eligible for a return within 30 days after the delivery. Thanks for shopping with us!

Visit Seller's Storefront