Welcome to tutorial no. 1 in our Resumable file uploader series. How many times have you tried to upload a large file only to know that it failed because of a network issue! When you re-upload the file again, the upload starts from the beginning :(. Not cool at all. This is where resumable file uploaders come in handy. …

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Welcome to tutorial no. 37 in Golang tutorial series. In this tutorial, we will learn how to write data to files using Go. We will also learn how to write to a file concurrently. This tutorial has the following sections Writing string to a file Writing bytes to a file Writing data to a file line by line Appending to a …

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Welcome to tutorial no. 36 in Golang tutorial series. File reading is one of the most common operations performed in any programming language. In this tutorial, we will learn about how files can be read using Go. This tutorial has the following sections. Reading an entire file into memory Using an absolute file path …

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Welcome to tutorial no. 35 in Golang tutorial series. Reflection is one of the advanced topics in Go. I will try to make it as simple as possible. This tutorial has the following sections. What is reflection? What is the need to inspect a variable and find its type? reflect package reflect.Type and reflect.Value …

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Welcome to tutorial no. 34 in Golang tutorial series. What are first class functions? A language that supports first class functions allows functions to be assigned to variables, passed as arguments to other functions and returned from other functions. Go has support for first class functions. In this tutorial, we will …

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Welcome to tutorial no. 33 in Golang tutorial series. What is Panic? The idiomatic way of handling abnormal conditions in a Go program is using errors. Errors are sufficient for most of the abnormal conditions arising in the program. But there are some situations where the program cannot continue execution after an …

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Welcome to tutorial no. 31 in our Golang tutorial series. In the last tutorial we learnt about error representation in Go and how to handle errors from the standard library. We also learnt how to extract more information from the errors. This tutorial deals with how to create our own custom errors which we can use in …

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Welcome to tutorial no. 30 in Golang tutorial series. What are errors? Errors indicate any abnormal condition occurring in the program. Let’s say we are trying to open a file and the file does not exist in the file system. This is an abnormal condition and it’s represented as an error. Errors in Go are …

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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 where the defer statement is present returns. The definition might seem complex but it’s pretty simple to understand by means of an example. Example 1package …

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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 implicitly implemented in Go. A type implements an interface if it provides definitions for all the methods declared in the interface. Let’s see how …

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