Go Cookbook

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Go is an increasingly popular language for programming everything from web applications to distributed network services. This practical guide provides recipes to help you unravel common problems and perform useful tasks when working with Go. Each recipe includes self-contained code solutions that you can freely use, along with a discussion of how and why they work. Programmers new to Go can quickly ramp up their knowledge while accomplishing useful tasks, and experienced Go developers can save time by cutting and pasting proven code directly into their applications.

Recipes include:

• Creating a module
• Calling code from another module
• Returning and handling an error
• Converting strings to numbers (or converting numbers to strings)
• Modifying multiple characters in a string
• Creating substrings from a string
• Capturing string input
• And so much more

About the Author

Chang Sau Sheong has been in the software development industry for more than 26 years, and has been involved in building software products in many industries and using various technologies. He is an active member of the software development communities for Java, Ruby previously and now focuses mostly on Go, running meetups and giving talks in conferences all around the world. He also runs the GopherCon Singapore, one of the largest community-led developer conferences in Southeast Asia, and has been doing so since 2017. Sau Sheong has written 4 programming books, 3 in Ruby and the last one in Go -- Go Web Programming.