Articles with the tag "beginner"

Everyone keeps saying you should be testing, but are they right? In this article we discuss the downsides to trying to learn testing too early and how it can negatively affect your ability to learn to code.

It is easy to get confused by when and why different variants of nil will be equal and when they won't be in Go. In this article we explore why this happens so that you know what to expect when writing your code.

Go 1.10 introduced the new strings.Builder type, which can be used to efficiently and easily build or concatenate strings. In this post we explore some of the ways to use the type as well as why it implementing the io.Writer interface makes it an incredibly powerful tool.

After using Go for a few weeks, chances are you are going to run across a single-line if...else statement. Most often, you will see this with an err (eg if err := doStuff(); err != nil { ... }). This article discusses the situations where a one-liner is appropriate, and ones where it isn't a great fit.

Learn about interfaces in Go by walking through an example and comparing them to interfaces in other languages, plus an explanation of the empty interface.

Learn how to perform common operations with strings in Go. This article discusses how to write multiline strings, concatenate strings efficiently, convert various data types into strings, checking for prefixes, and converting strings to byte slices.