Publisher's Synopsis
Go for beginnersIt's not the latest trend in programming language theory, but it is a way to solve real-world problems.About the bookGo languageis a programming language initially developed at Google in the year 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is a statically-typed language having syntax similar to that of C. It provides garbage collection, type safety, dynamic-typing capability, many advanced built-in types such as variable length arrays and key-value maps. It also provides a rich standard library.The Go programming language was launched in November 2009 and is used in some of the Google's production systems.AudienceThis book is designed for software programmers with a need to understand the Go programming language from scratch. This tutorial will give you enough understanding on Go programming language from where you can take yourself to higher levelsof expertise.PrerequisitesBefore proceeding with this book, you should have a basic understanding of computer programming terminologies. If you have a good command over C, then it would be quite easy for you tounderstand the concepts of Go programming and move fast on the learning track
