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Go Systems Programming

You're reading from   Go Systems Programming Master Linux and Unix system level programming with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125643
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Go and Unix Systems Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Programs in Go 3. Advanced Go Features 4. Go Packages, Algorithms, and Data Structures 5. Files and Directories 6. File Input and Output 7. Working with System Files 8. Processes and Signals 9. Goroutines - Basic Features 10. Goroutines - Advanced Features 11. Writing Web Applications in Go 12. Network Programming

Exercises

  1. Browse the Go documentation site: https://golang.org/doc/.
  2. Write a Go program that keeps reading integers until you give the number 0 as input, then it prints the minimum and maximum integer in the input.
  3. Write the same Go program as before, but this time, you will get your input using command-line arguments. Which version do you think is better? Why?
  4. Write a Go program that supports two command-line options (-i and -k) in random order using if statements. Now change your program to support three command-line arguments. As you will see, the complexity of the latter program is just too much to handle using if statements.
  5. If the indices of a map were natural numbers, are there any cases that it would be wise and efficient to use a map instead of an array?
  6. Try to put the functionality of array2map.go into a separate function.
  7. Try to develop your own random number generator...
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