Preface
Chapter 1： Go and the Operating System
The structure of the book
The history of Go
Why learn Go?
Go advantages
Is Go perfect?
What is a preprocessor?
The godoc utility
Compiling Go code
Executing Go code
Two Go rules
You either use a Go package or do not include it
There is only one way to format curly braces
Downloading Go packages
Unix stalin， stdout， and stderr
About printing output
Using standard output
Getting user input
About ：= and =
Reading from standard input
Working with command-line arguments
About error output
Writing to log files
Logging levels
Logging facilities
Log servers
A Go program that sends information to log files
About log．Fatal()
About log．Panic()
Error handling in Go
The error data type
Error handling
Additional resources
Exercises
Summary

Chapter 2： Understanding Go Internals
The Go compiler
Garbage Collection
The Tricolor algorithm
More about the operation of the Go Garbage Collector
Unsafe code
About the unsafe package
Another example of the unsafe package
Calling C code from Go
Calling C code from Go using the same file
Calling C code from Go using separate files
The C code
The Go code
Mixing Go and C code
Calling Go functions from C code
The Go package
The C code
The defer keyword
Panic and Recover
Using the panic function on its own
Two handy Unix utilities
The strace tool
The dtrace tool
Your Go environment
The Go Assembler
Node Trees
Learning more about go build
General Go coding advices
Additional Resources
Exercises
Summary

Chapter 3： Working with Basic Go Data Types
Go loops
The for loop
The while loop
The range keyword
Examples of Go for loops
Go arrays
Multi-dimensional arrays
The shortcomings of Go arrays
Go slices
Performing basic operations on slices
Slices are being expanded automatically
Byte slices

Chapter 4： The Uses of Composite Types
Chapter 5： Enhancing Go Code with Data Structures
Chapter 6： What You Might Not Know About Go Packages
Chapter 7： Reflection and Interfaces for All Seasons
Chapter 8： Telling a Unix System What to Do
Chapter 9： Go Concurrency - Goroutines， Channels， and Pipelines
Chapter 10： Go Concurrency- Advanced Topics
Chapter 11： Code Testing， Optimization， and Profiling
Chapter 12： The Foundations of Network Programming in Go
Chapter 13： Network Programming - Building Servers and Clients
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Index