Getting Started with Go: Introducing Go Programming Language

Go is a language that attempts to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted dynamically typed language with the efficiency maintainability and safety of a statically typed compiled language. In this course youll explore the history of Go why it was developed and how it is used across specific domains in the real world. Next youll discover the differentiating features of Go and how Go differs from other programming languages. You’ll also explore the real world uses of Go and the pros and cons. You’ll then explore the Go Playground web service to vet compile link and run programs inside a sandbox Finally youll learn to configure a Go development environment installing a code editor and the Go tools on a local development machine.