Go Workshop

Session 1 (14/04/2020): Introduction to Go

• Setting up IntelliJ
• Running a simple Go program
• Basic concepts of the language
• Hands On: Writing a little REST service

Session 2 (22/04/2020): Further Mechanisms in Go

• Some mechanisms around the Go compiler (GOPATH, go get, gofmt, goimport)
• Usage of defer, panic and recover
• Interfaces
• Testing
• Hands On: Writing unit tests for our REST service

Session 3 (06/05/2020): Topics of interest and Concurrency in Go

• Structuring a Go project
• Documenting code with Godoc
• Writing mocks for testing
• Concurrency in Go: Goroutines and Channels