Welcome to the Go Language Tutorial – a beginner-friendly guide to learning Go (also known as Golang), a modern programming language designed for simplicity, performance, and reliability.
This tutorial covers the essential concepts of Go with simple, well-documented examples. Each topic includes explanations and code snippets to help you understand how things work in real-world scenarios.
- Getting Started (Hello World)
- Variables and Constants
- Data Types
- Type Casting
- Pointers
- Arrays and Slices
- Maps
- Structs
- Conditional Statements (
if,else,switch) - Loops (
for,range) - Control Statements (
break,continue,goto) - Functions
- Methods
- Defer
- File Handling
To run the examples, make sure you have Go installed:
go version
Clone this repository, visit the specific dir (topic) and run any file using:
go run main.go
/GoLang-Tutorial
│
├── README.md
├── readme.md
│
├── 01-hello-world # Topic folder: Hello World
│ ├── README.md # Topic-specific doc and explanation
│ ├── go.mod # Module-specific file (optional, if standalone)
│ └── main.go # Main Go file with example code
└── 02- ...
In Go, you can build and run your programs using the built-in go command-line tool. It compiles source code into an executable binary.
go build
# Build with executable name
go build -o app_name