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Mastering Go

You're reading from   Mastering Go Create Golang production applications using network libraries, concurrency, machine learning, and advanced data structures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838559335
Length 798 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

1. Go and the Operating System 2. Understanding Go Internals FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Basic Go Data Types 4. The Uses of Composite Types 5. How to Enhance Go Code with Data Structures 6. What You Might Not Know About Go Packages and Functions 7. Reflection and Interfaces for All Seasons 8. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 9. Concurrency in Go – Goroutines, Channels, and Pipelines 10. Concurrency in Go – Advanced Topics 11. Code Testing, Optimization, and Profiling 12. The Foundations of Network Programming in Go 13. Network Programming – Building Your Own Servers and Clients 14. Machine Learning in Go 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Stacks in Go

A stack is a data structure that looks like a pile of plates. The last plate that goes on the top of the pile is the one that will be used first when you need to use a new plate.

Like a queue, the main advantage of a stack is its simplicity because you only have to worry about implementing two functions in order to be able to work with a stack: adding a new node to the stack and removing a node from the stack.

Implementing a stack in Go

It is now time to look at the implementation of a stack in Go. This will be illustrated in the stack.go source file. Once again, a linked list will be used for implementing the stack. As you know, you will need two functions: one function named Push() for putting things on the stack and...

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