First Class Functions
Welcome to tutorial no. 33 in Golang tutorial series. What are first class functions? A language that supports first class functions allows functions to be assigned...
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Panic and Recover
Welcome to tutorial no. 32 in Golang tutorial series. What is Panic? The idiomatic way of handling abnormal conditions in a Go program is using errors....
Custom Errors
Welcome to tutorial no. 31 in Golang tutorial series. In the last tutorial we learnt how errors are represented in Go and how to handle errors...
Error Handling
Welcome to tutorial no. 30 in Golang tutorial series. What are errors? Errors indicate an abnormal condition occurring in the program. Let's say we are trying...
Defer
Welcome to tutorial no. 29 in Golang tutorial series. What is Defer? Defer statement is used to execute a function call just before the surrounding function...
Polymorphism - OOP in Go
Welcome to tutorial no. 28 in Golang tutorial series. Polymorphism in Go is achieved with the help of interfaces. As we have already discussed, interfaces are...
Composition Instead of Inheritance - OOP in Go
Welcome to tutorial no. 27 in Golang tutorial series. Go does not support inheritance, however, it does support composition. The generic definition of composition is "put...
Structs Instead of Classes - OOP in Go
Welcome to tutorial no. 26 in Golang tutorial series. Is Go Object Oriented? Go is not a pure object oriented programming language. This excerpt taken from...
Go Mutex Tutorial
Welcome to tutorial no. 25 in Golang tutorial series. In this tutorial, we will learn about mutexes. We will also learn how to solve race conditions...
Select
Welcome to tutorial no. 24 in Golang tutorial series. What is select? The select statement is used to choose from multiple send/receive channel operations. The...
Buffered Channels and Worker Pools
Welcome to tutorial no. 23 in Golang tutorial series. What are buffered channels? All the channels we discussed in the previous tutorial were basically unbuffered. As...
Channels
Welcome to tutorial no. 22 in Golang tutorial series. In the previous tutorial, we discussed about how concurrency is achieved in Go using Goroutines. In this...
Goroutines
Welcome to tutorial no. 21 in Golang tutorial series. In the previous tutorial, we discussed concurrency and how it is different from parallelism. In this tutorial,...
Introduction to Concurrency
Welcome to tutorial no. 20 in Golang tutorial series. Go is a concurrent language and not a parallel one. Before discussing how concurrency is taken care...
Interfaces - II
Welcome to tutorial no. 19 in Golang tutorial series. This is the second part in our 2 part interface tutorial. In case you missed the first...
Interfaces - I
Welcome to tutorial no. 18 in Golang tutorial series. This is the first part in our 2 part interface tutorial. What is an interface? In Go,...
Methods in Go
Welcome to tutorial no. 17 in Golang tutorial series. Introduction A method is just a function with a special receiver type between the func keyword and...