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Mastering Go

You're reading from   Mastering Go Leverage Go's expertise for advanced utilities, empowering you to develop professional software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805127147
Length 736 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Quick Introduction to Go 2. Basic Go Data Types FREE CHAPTER 3. Composite Data Types 4. Go Generics 5. Reflection and Interfaces 6. Go Packages and Functions 7. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 8. Go Concurrency 9. Building Web Services 10. Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket 11. Working with REST APIs 12. Code Testing and Profiling 13. Fuzz Testing and Observability 14. Efficiency and Performance 15. Changes in Recent Go Versions 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix: The Go Garbage Collector

Exercises

  • Use the functionality of byCharacter.go, byLine.go, and byWord.go in order to create a simplified version of the wc(1) UNIX utility.
  • Create a full version of the wc(1) UNIX utility, using the viper package to process command line options.
  • Create a full version of the wc(1) UNIX utility, using commands instead of command line options, with the help of the cobra package.
  • Go offers bufio.Scanner to read files line by line. Try to rewrite byLine.go using bufio.Scanner.
  • The bufio.Scanner in Go is designed to read input line by line, splitting it into tokens. If you need to read a file character by character, a common approach is to use bufio.NewReader in conjunction with Read() or ReadRune(). Implement the functionality of byCharacter.go this way.
  • Make ioFS.go a cobra project.
  • Update the statistics application cobra project in order to also store the normalized version of the dataset in data.json.
  • The byLine.go utility uses ReadString...
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