Concurrent Programming with Go
Welcome to the Concurrent Programming with Go course! In this course, you'll learn how to write concurrent programs using Go's powerful concurrency primitives.
What You'll Learn#
- Understanding concurrency versus parallelism
- Working with goroutines and channels
- Synchronization techniques using WaitGroups and Mutexes
- Common concurrency patterns in Go
- Best practices for concurrent programming
- Error handling in concurrent code
- Testing concurrent programs
Prerequisites#
Before starting this course, you should have:
- Basic knowledge of Go programming language
- Understanding of functions, structs, and interfaces in Go
- Familiarity with Go's error handling
Course Modules#
This course is divided into several modules to help you learn concurrent programming in Go step by step:
- Introduction to Concurrency - Understand concurrency vs parallelism and Go's approach.
- Channels Basics - Learn about Go's primary communication mechanism.
- Bidirectional Channels - See how channels can send and receive data.
- Directional Channels - Learn about send-only and receive-only channels.
- Buffered Channels - Work with channels that can store multiple values.
- Creating Goroutines - Launch lightweight threads in Go.
- Working with WaitGroups - Coordinate multiple goroutines.
- Testing with WaitGroups - Write tests for concurrent code.
- Race Conditions - Identify and understand race conditions.
- Using Mutex - Protect shared resources from concurrent access.
- The Producer-Consumer Problem - Solve this classic concurrency challenge.
- Range over Channels - Iterate over channel values elegantly.
- Unbuffered Channels - Understand synchronization with unbuffered channels.
- Buffered vs Unbuffered Channels - Compare the two channel types.
- Channel Direction - Enforce data flow direction.
- Channel Ownership - Establish clear ownership patterns.
- Pipeline Pattern - Process data through a series of stages.
- Fan-Out Fan-In Pattern - Distribute and collect work among goroutines.
- Cancellation with Context Package - Manage goroutine lifecycles and cancellation.
Let's explore how Go's concurrency model makes it easy to write concurrent programs that are both efficient and easy to reason about!