Welcome to tutorial number 8 of our Golang tutorial series. if statement has a condition and it executes a block of code if that condition evaluates to true. It executes an alternate else block if the condition evaluates to false. In this tutorial we will look at the various syntaxes for using a if statement. If …

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This tutorial is now deprecated. Please click here for the updated version. Welcome to tutorial number 7 in Golang tutorial series. What are packages and why are they used? So far we have seen go programs which have only one file which has a main function with a couple of other functions. In real world scenarios this …

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Welcome to tutorial no. 6 in our Golang tutorial series. What is a function? A function is a block of code that performs a specific task. A function takes an input, performs some operations on the input and generates outputs. For example, a function can take the radius as input and calculate the area and circumference …

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Welcome to tutorial no. 5 in our Golang tutorial series. What is a constant? Constants in Go is used to denote fixed static values such as 95 "I love Go" 67.89 and so on. Constants are generally used to represent values that do not change throughout the life time of an application. Declaring a constant The …

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Welcome to tutorial number 4 in our Golang tutorial series. Please read Golang tutorial part 3: Variables of this series to learn about variables. The following are the basic data types available in Go bool Numeric Types int8, int16, int32, int64, int uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64, uint float32, float64 complex64, …

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This is the third tutorial in our Golang tutorial series and it deals with variables in Golang. You can read part 2 to learn about configuring Go and running the hello world program. What is a variable? Variable is the name given to a memory location to store a value of a specific type. There are various syntaxes to …

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This tutorial is now deprecated. Please visit /hello-world-gomod/ for the updated version. This is the second tutorial in our Golang tutorial series. Please read Golang tutorial part 1: Introduction and installation to know about what is golang and how to install golang. There is no better way to learn a programming …

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This is the first tutorial in our Golang tutorial series. This tutorial provides an introduction to Go and also discusses the advantages of choosing Go over other programming languages. We will also learn how to install Go in Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Introduction Go also known as Golang is an open source, compiled …

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