Learning Go 🚀

This repository provides examples and exercises with the Go programming language.

Main Topics Learned 📚

Go Essentials 🛠️

• Declaring variables
• Value types
• Outputting values
• Constant values
• User input
• Formatting strings
• Returning values
• Loops
• Working with files
• Handling errors

Modules and Packages 📦

• Demonstrates the use of packages and modules in Go

Pointers 🔗

• Creating a pointer
• Pointer's null value

Structs 🏗️

• What are structs
• Creating a struct
• Handling embedded structs
• Struct tags

Interfaces and Generics 🔄

• Creating and implementing an interface
• Creating a generic method
• Getting a type of an any type

Arrays, Slices, and Maps 📊

• Array's slices
• The make() function
• Maps
• Type aliases for longer maps

Functions 🔧

• Function as values
• Anonymous function
• Variadic function
• Splitting slices into parameters values

Concurrency ⚙️

• How to defer code execution (the defer keyword)
• Goroutines and Channels
• Handling channels

Working with JSON 📝

• How to serialize a JSON (Go struct to JSON string)
• How to deserialize a JSON (JSON string into Go struct)

Working with Dates 📅

• Get current time
• Get current time as UTC
• Format current time UTC to string UTC format
• Adding hours, minutes, and seconds
• Converting date string into date

REST API 🌐

• A RESTful API built with the Gin framework, demonstrating CRUD operations, user authentication, and database interactions using SQLite.

Notes 🗒️

• This repo was made following the course: Go - The Complete Guide