Google’s Go (golang) Programming Language
Learn to program from highly experienced University Computer Science Professor Todd Mcleod.
Todd Mcleod the computer science University professor with a teaching experience of 15 years is here with his course on Google’s golang programming language.
What is Go (golang)?
It is an open source programming language which makes it super easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
The language was developed by some of the same individuals who created C language, Unix, and UTF-8. Therefore it automatically becomes a great choice for a programming language.
Go has a very lean and user-friendly syntax. The developer of Go Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson created it to be a modern language which easily:
- uses multiple cores
- easily implements concurrency
- easily works in distributed environments
- And easily allows the programmer to write programs.
Go was created by luminaries in computer science at one of the best, if not the very best, software engineering firm to have ever existed — Google.
The credentials of Go are unsurpassed.
Why did Google create a new language?
As per Google, “Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming.” Programming had become too difficult and the choice of languages was partly to blame. One had to choose either efficient compilation, efficient execution, or ease of programming; all three were not available in the same mainstream language.
Programmers who could were choosing ease over safety and efficiency by moving to dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript rather than C++ or, to a lesser extent, Java.
Go is an attempt to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language.
It also aims to be modern, with support for networked and multi-core computing. Finally, working with Go is intended to be fast: it should take at most a few seconds to build a large executable on a single computer. To meet these goals required addressing a number of linguistic issues: an expressive but lightweight type system; concurrency and garbage collection; rigid dependency specification; and so on. These cannot be addressed well by libraries or tools; a new language was called for.”
In Todd Mcleod’s opinion, Go is the best programming language that you should be learning today. Professor Mcleod began programming in 1982 with BASIC, he has worked with many languages, and he finds Go as the best language he ever used.
Go is a top-paid programming language in America today.
Go ahead and learn from Todd Mcleod about this greatest programming language ever created. You will leave with resources and code samples to start making all of your software and apps really go.
Here’s all that you will learn
- How computers work
- The fundamentals of programming
- Modern best-practices for programming
- Why Go programming language is the best programming language you can learn today
- Additional valuable programming skills including understanding environment variables, using a command line interface (CLI) terminal, understanding SHA-1 checksums, working with GitHub, and increasing your productivity with an integrated development environment (IDE) such as Webstorm or Atom.io
Link to the full course curriculum: View here
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