Ultimate Go Training

Instructor: William Kennedy | Managing Partner @ Ardan Labs

William Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Labs in Miami, Florida, a mobile, web, and systems development company. He is also a co-author of the book Go in Action, the author of the blog GoingGo.Net, and a founding member of GoBridge which is working to increase Go adoption through diversity.

This class has been designed over the past 4 years and goes beyond just being a Go language class. There will be very little time spent on specifc Go syntax. Our time will be spent learning how to read and understand Go code with a big focus of "if performance matters" then these things matter. We will talk about code design, semantics, guidelines, mechanical sympathy, data oriented design, concurrency and tooling.

• Pointers
• Data Semantics
• Control Flow Design
• Decoupling Mechanics
• Compositional Design
• oncurrency
• Profiling / Tracing

The material has been designed to be taught in a classroom environment. The code is well commented but missing some of the contextual concepts and ideas that will be covered in class. Students with the following minimal background will get the most out of the class.

• Studied CS in school or has a minimum of two years of experience programming full time professionally.
• Familiar with structural and object oriented programming styles.
• Has worked with arrays, lists, queues and stacks.
• Understands processes, threads and synchronization at a high level.
• Operating Systems
  • Has worked with a command shell.
  • Knows how to maneuver around the file system.
  • Understands what environment variables are.