Tanmay Teaches Go: The Ideal Language for Backend Developers

Discover how to write your own useful, efficient and lightweight Go programs quickly and easily

This entertaining guide shows, step by step, how to build custom programs using Google's Go, the new open-source programming language. Written by teenaged technology phenom Tanmay Bakshi and Baheer Kamal, the book is an engaging resource for programmers who want to leverage Go's unique lightweight runtime and concurrency features to build their applications. You will learn Go programming with a particular emphasis on special features, including Channels, Goroutines, and interoperability with C.

Tanmay Teaches Go: The Ideal Language for Backend Developers teaches by doing--it guides you through developing real applications and clearly explains each step along the way. Coverage includes Go Modules, the Go compiler, error handling, file and network I/O, and much more. Filled with examples and helpful hints, the book is every programmer's essential guide to Go, one of today's most popular computer programming languages.

• Presented in an accessible style that makes learning easy
• Teaches by example, leading you through real applications
• Written by a pair of online media personalities and coding experts