The Go Language: Arrays & Slices

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You will learn about Learn GO arrays and slices fundamentals with easy but efficient exercises. Use these short videos as a GO language reference for reviewing or consulting. All exercises are shown in the Golang playground. You just need access to the Internet. GO arrays and slice techniques explained in detail as well as Go for/range loops. Start learning GO data structures here with arrays and slice exercises. Coding is easy if properly taught. This is the second volume in the series. Begin with volume one if you are new to Golang. Course has been fully inspected and reviewed on September 2021. Use this course to review your understanding of Go arrays and slices. This course is ideal for individuals who are Go language students wanting to understand arrays and slices or Go programmers who want to refresh syntax and concepts It is particularly useful for Go language students wanting to understand arrays and slices or Go programmers who want to refresh syntax and concepts.

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Title: The Go Language: Arrays & Slices

Price: Free

Average Rating: 4.85

Number of Lectures: 50

Number of Quizzes: 1

Number of Published Lectures: 49

Number of Published Quizzes: 1

Number of Curriculum Items: 51

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 50

Original Price: Free

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Learn GO arrays and slices fundamentals with easy but efficient exercises.
Use these short videos as a GO language reference for reviewing or consulting.
All exercises are shown in the Golang playground. You just need access to the Internet.
GO arrays and slice techniques explained in detail as well as Go for/range loops.
Start learning GO data structures here with arrays and slice exercises. Coding is easy if properly taught.
This is the second volume in the series. Begin with volume one if you are new to Golang.
Course has been fully inspected and reviewed on September 2021.
Use this course to review your understanding of Go arrays and slices.

Who Should Attend

Go language students wanting to understand arrays and slices
Go programmers who want to refresh syntax and concepts

Target Audiences

Go language students wanting to understand arrays and slices
Go programmers who want to refresh syntax and concepts

This is the second volume of the GO Language series by Tony de Araujo. It contains around two hours of videos and exercises designed to make you proficient on Go array and slice structures.

Rather than being a primer, it is a didactic sequential approach with short explanations and exercises. By the end of this tutorial series, you’ll have a solid understanding of arrays and slices in Go, enabling you to choose the right data structure for your specific use case.

Understanding Arrays and Slices in Go

In Go, arrays and slices are essential data structures that allow you to work with ordered sequences of elements.
These collections are particularly useful when dealing with related values.

Here’s a breakdown of the key differences between arrays and slices:

Arrays:

In Go an array is a fixed-size data structure.
Its capacity is defined at creation time and cannot be changed afterward.
Once you allocate an array’s size, it remains constant.
Arrays are suitable when you know the exact number of elements you need.Example: var myArray [5]int creates an integer array with 5 elements.

Slices:

A slice is a dynamically resizable data structure.

Unlike arrays, slices can grow or shrink as needed.
Slices are built on top of arrays and provide a more flexible way to work with sequences.
They are commonly used when the number of elements is not fixed.
Example: mySlice := []int{1, 2, 3} creates an integer slice.

Why Use Arrays and Slices?

Data Organization: Arrays and slices allow you to group related data together. For instance, you can store a list of temperatures, user IDs, or product prices.
Code Efficiency: By using arrays and slices, you can perform the same operations on multiple values simultaneously. This leads to cleaner and more concise code.
Flexibility: Slices adapt to your needs, making them ideal for scenarios where the size may change dynamically.

Tutorial Series Contents:

1. Introduction: Understand the basics of arrays and slices.

2. Declaration and Initialization: Learn how to declare and initialize arrays and slices.

3. Accessing Elements: Explore methods to access individual elements.

4. Modifying Elements: Discover how to modify array and slice elements.

5. Iterating Over Arrays and Slices: Master loops and range-based iteration.

6. Multidimensional Arrays: Dive into arrays with multiple dimensions.

7. Built-in Functions: Explore useful functions for working with arrays and slices.

By the end of this tutorial series, you’ll have a solid understanding of arrays and slices in Go, enabling you to choose the right data structure for your specific use case.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Arrays & Slices

Lecture 1: Why arrays?

Lecture 2: What are arrays in Go?

Lecture 3: Array declaration using default values

Lecture 4: Declaring and assigning. Length of an array

Lecture 5: Overriding index numbers when declaring arrays

Lecture 6: The for loop in Go

Lecture 7: The range loop in Go

Lecture 8: Good news on For Range loops

Lecture 9: Exercise – Print odd numbers from array values

Lecture 10: Solution – Print odd numbers from array values

Lecture 11: Data in arrays is passed by value

Lecture 12: Passing arrays by reference

Lecture 13: Passing a subset range of an array in Go

Lecture 14: Array slices are pointers to array values

Lecture 15: What is a slice?

Lecture 16: Three ways to declare a slice

Lecture 17: Appending new items to a Go slice

Lecture 18: In Go, strings are line slices, but with a fixed length

Lecture 19: Appending a slice to another slice using the ellipsis (…) operator | also Copy

Lecture 20: Appending a limited slice range of values to another slice

Lecture 21: Adding values to an empty slice

Lecture 22: Optional exercise – a slice of bytes

Lecture 23: Solution – slice of bytes

Lecture 24: Copying slices using the copy() function

Lecture 25: Optional exercise – Copying a slice of integers

Lecture 26: Copying slices to specific target indexes

Lecture 27: Optional exercise on copying slices

Lecture 28: Slice copying exercise demo

Lecture 29: Deleting an item from a slice using append()

Lecture 30: Optional exercise: Deleting two items from a slice using append()

Lecture 31: Exercise result: Deleting two items from a slice using append()

Lecture 32: How to extend a slice using append and make

Lecture 33: Inserting a new item in the middle of a slice using 2 append()s

Lecture 34: Optional exercise: Append two items to the middle of a slice using two append()s

Lecture 35: Answer: Append two items to the middle of a slice

Lecture 36: Optional exercise: Append three items to the end of a slice

Lecture 37: Answer: Append three items to the end of a slice

Lecture 38: Optional exercise: Append an existing slice to the middle of another slice

Lecture 39: Answer: Append an existing slice to the middle of another slice

Lecture 40: Optional exercise: Append an existing slice to the middle of a modified slice

Lecture 41: Answer: Append an existing slice to the middle of a modified slice

Lecture 42: Lecture: Appending data into mixed indexes

Lecture 43: Optional exercise: Append cardinal numbers in the proper order

Lecture 44: Answer: Append cardinal numbers in the proper order

Lecture 45: Optional exercise: Appending three slices to a new slice

Lecture 46: Answer: Appending three slices

Lecture 47: Lecture: Two-dimensional arrays

Lecture 48: RESOURCES: Go Arrays and Slices

Lecture 49: Thank you

Instructors

Tony de Araujo
Tech Writer – Published Author on Programming [Amazon]

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