Programming with Google Go Specialization

A set of practice and demo code of Programming with Google Go Specialization on Coursera

Course website:

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/google-golang

Course title:

Programming with Google Go Specialization

Advance your computer programming career. Develop efficient applications with Google's innovative programming language, Go!

Table of content

Course_#1 :Getting Started with Go

1. Week_1_Introduction to the specialization

• Overview and why should we study Go
• Installing Go development environment, and Go tool
• Objects
• Variables as well as variable initialization
• Workspaces & packages
• Week_1 Quiz
• Project: Hello World

2. Week_2_Basic data types

• Pointers
• Variable scope
• Memory allocation as well as Garbage collection (i.e., GC)
• Comment and Basic output
• Numerical primitive data types: Ints, Floats, Strings
• Constants
• Control flow and Basic input
• Week_2 Quiz
• Project: String operation (find-"ian")

3. Week_3_Composite Data Types

• Arrays
• Slices (window of allocated memory spaces)
• Variable slices
• Hash tables and Maps
• Structure ( Golang Struct )
• Week_3 Quiz
• Project: Slice operation

4. Week_4_Protocol and Formats

• IETF Request for Comments (aka RFC)
• Java Script Object Notation (aka JSON)
• File operation
• I/O utility and os package
• Project: Make a JSON
• Final project: Read a file and print content (read)

Course_#2 :Functions, Methods, and Interfaces in Go

1. Week_1_Functions and organization

• Modularization and function
• Function parameters as well as return values
• Call by value vs Call by reference
• Passing arrays and slices
• Guideline for functions
• Week_1 Quiz
• Project: Implement Bubble Sort

2. Week_2_Function types

• First-class values
• Use function as return
• Variadic parameters
• Deferred statement
• Week_2 Quiz
• Project: Implement physic displacement formula

3. Week_3_Object orientation in Go

• Classes and encapsulation
• Support for classes
• Point and reference
• Pass a pointer as well as dereference a pointer
• Week_3 Quiz
• Project: Animal

4. Week_4_Interfaces for abstraction

• Polymorphism
• Interfaces
• Concrete type
• Type assertions
• Error handling
• Week_4 Quiz
• Project: Animal behavoir simulation

Course_#3 :Concurrency in Go

1. Week_1_Why use concurrency

• Parallel execution as well as concurrent execution
• Von neumann bottleneck as well as CPU Architecture
• Moore's Law
• Power wall
• Hiding latency
• Week_1 Quiz
• Project: Mini essay and Moore's Law and its limitation

2. Week_2_Basic knowledge about concurrency

• Processes
• Scheduling
• Treads and go-routine
• Interleavings
• Shared variable as well as race condition
• Week_2 Quiz
• Project: Explain and demo race condition

3. Week_3_Thrads in Go

• Go-routines
• Synchronization as well as blocking/non-blocking
• Wait groups
• Thread communication
• Channels
• Buffered and non-buffered channels
• Week_3 Quiz
• Project: Implement sorting with 4 different go-routines

4. Week_4_Synchronized Communication

• Blocking on channels
• Select syntax with channels
• Mutual exclusion, lock, and mutex
• Depth First Search (i.e., DFS) Traversal
• Starvation and Deadlock
• Classic Dining Philosopher Problem
• Week_4 Quiz
• Project: Implement dining philosopher model