Learn The Basics of Google's Go Lang in About 15 Minutes (using a Raspberry Pi) 

Nice short video. Please do another one covering arrays, objects, classes, etc!

Thank you - i did have a little experimenting with Go couple of months back. I found it very easy to learn the basics.

A brilliant way to introduce this language. Excellent overview of the basic concepts. Please can you do a simple GUI app in GO!

Hi Gary, Great video nice and concise. Thank you for sharing.

Business project is keeping me in node land but I have started a go project for what I think is a cool game and been learning and working in go when I can and I love it!

It's always interesting seeing big companies taking already existing parts of programming languages to a different level. Of course it should always be clear why this new language deserves a chance. Besides C I see also influences from Pascal in this short demonstration. I would like to see some more videos on this subject. Especially how it compares to Python or even general purpose programming languages.

Haha give it a go, nicely done :D Gimme more ^^

Thank you for posting this.

Thanks Prof! and can and will do.

Thanks, Gary, for pushing Go to SBCs. That's something I have been vindicating for quite a long time. I haven't jumped to SBCs yet (I explain why below), but I did try compiling and executing GO programs with VSCode. It is a great language, very suitable for large systems, and it is quite easy to learn even though it has many advanced features built-in. I used to program in C/C++ for many years and I switched to Java 12 years ago. I feel Go is my next language. The package structuring is pretty similar to Java, which is cool. Go also allows object-oriented programming and polymorphism (using Interfaces) although it doesn't allow inheritance (I rarely use inheritance in Java myself. I try to avoid it.) I'm also very interested in SBCs but I didn't yet decide to go for them because I am waiting for a low cost SBC with an 8-core ARM processor to efficiently take advantage of multithreading in these processors. In my experience with parallel processing in memory shared machines in the mid 90's, parallel processing really starts to become more interesting in terms of performance from 8 processors forward. I think this still holds nowadays, or it's maybe much worse (meaning, maybe the optimal performance start with more than 8 processors) because of the highly parallel architectures these days, where multiple instructions can be executed in a single cycle, thus benefiting single thread performance more than in multiple threads. Even though Go is excellent for the purpose I just mentioned, what really attracted me to this language was the fact it has support for vector graphics. This is another similarity with Java that explicitly supports vector graphics in Graphics2D (JRE). This allows to develop portable and quite fancy GUIs even on Android. Therefore, since Go is a compiled language (thus, faster than Java), one way to be able to afford complex vector GUIs with lots of animations, etc. in SBCs would be using parallel processing. Go also allows using SIMD instructions available on ARM processors as well, which is quite interesting in vector graphics because one can execute transformations in several points at the same time. This configuration would work efficiently even with quite basic graphics output on board. Combining these features with future support for vector graphics on GPUs would be a quite interesting use of SBCs even outside the embedded software universe. Therefore, I would suggest more multithreading applications in GO using several cores in ARM SBCs in this channel. I think it could encourage many people to produce interesting and efficient applications using cheap ARM SBCs. It was a great idea to propose Go on SBCs and I can only encourage you to go deeper in this way. And again, Gary. Thank you very much for this video. I think this is the only channel to propose such contents. Good choice!

Nice quick intro to Go and use of a Pi.

Great introduction to the language

I started learning it a while ago. I like it. It reminds me of a cross between C and Python. I'll be getting back into learning more soon.

thank you for sharing. good course 👍

Thanks, you've got me started in go!

A nice concise video on go. You might have covered how to break out of an infinite loop in code though rather than panic button pressing ;-) . Using 'if/break' and maybe cover 'continue' too.

Thanks for a very good introduction to the Go language. How can we access IO pins on the RPi?

great!

I really like the feature that returns multiple items

I have been using Go for over a year. As a long time C programmer, I was unsure about Go at first. I changed my mind after using it extensively. Now, I prefer Go to both Perl and C.

Thanks👍

*GARY!!!* *Good Morning Professor!* *Good Morning Fellow Classmates!* Stay safe out there everyone!

Hey Gary, I usually love your video's (and wanted to know about GO, because our below stairs neighbor programs in it), but in this case you only explain how it's different from C but you don''t explain why it has to be different and why it's better and why we should use it! Btw I hate Python for similar reasons. And Ruby even more...

Let's GO!!

looks fun

nice short video, great..

Excellent presentation, about the language not some cleverly contrived problem like some short tutorials.

4:18 folder called "cobol"

"Keep on going!" Saw what you did there

I see you're modeling your "Polar Bear in a Snowstorm" T-shirt, but I don't see it in the store. ❄🐻‍❄❄

Docker is written in Go.🐓Thanks for the video.

...give it a go! 😂

Thank you for the intro. There are so many languages base on C, almost like a corner stone language. What would you say the advantage over python3 or Rust?

I want to see, will it accept below in same program or does it set the data type in very first value assignation j:=7 j:="hello"

Thank you, maybe one about rust?

Why don't you reuse the already launched terminal? use ctrl+`

Thanks, nice video. Just wonder why the title is "about 15 minutes", not "in 17 minutes" ?

Odd there isn’t a repo for Go. It would make sense to use apt-get

I remember writing c like that in the 80's. Basically it's just c/java programming. Why should I use this?

it would have been useful if you could hv highlighted some features of the language which are not already available in languages like C or Pascal... going thru the pains of learning a new languages for cosmetic gains isn't really worth it

Hi @Gary it seems that you covered 2 (Go and Rust) out of 3 (Go, Rust and Julia) of the languages of this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6qCH7Y2rc_w.html ... perhaps you can cover Julia as well in a future video? 🙂

Now do one for rust

Would have been nice if you mentioned structures and methods

Please do one on rust. I can't make sense of it :-/

Like C and Pascal

Helloord!

I think Visual Basic wants it's language syntax returned...

I guess if Google says it's the next big thing then it's the next big thing.

give it a GO was actually funny

your installation.. apt install go

There no such thing as if-loops

WHY!

*WHY!?* We *DON'T* need another language!!! Personally I don't have anything to do with google!!

Focuses too much on installation, and zero seconds on the main idea of go: channels and goroutines

you had me at GO. import "fmt" func add (x int, y int) int { return x +Y } func main () { fmt.PrintIn(add(add(42,3))