Two new books, Go Optimizations 101 and Go Details & Tips 101, are published now.

Go Details & Tips 101

This book collects many details and provides several tips in Go programming. The details and tips are categoried as

syntax and semantics related
conversions related
comparisons related
runtime related
standard packages related

(about 70 pages, 80+ details and tips)

The digital versions of this book are available at the following places:

Leanpub store, $4.99+.
Amazon Kindle store, $4.99.

Tapir, the author of Go 101, has spent 5+ years on writing Go 101 series books and maintaining the go101.org website. New contents will be continually added to the book series and the website from time to time. Tapir is also an indie game developer. If you would like to, you can support the book and the website by playing Tapir's games (made for both Android and iPhone/iPad).

Thanks to Olexandr Shalakhin for the permission of using one of the wonderful gopher icon images in the book cover.

Index:

Syntax and Semantics Related
- Go compilers will automatically insert some semicolons in code
- Normalization of method selectors
- more than 40 other details are avaliable in the paid ebooks.

Conversions Related
- Values of two different defined pointer types may be indirectly converted to each other's type if the base types of the two types shares the same undrelying type
- more 4 details are avaliable in the paid ebooks.

Comparisons Related
- Array values are compared element by element
- more 11 details are avaliable in the paid ebooks.

Runtime Related
- about 10 details are avaliable in the paid ebooks.

Standard Packages Related
- The json.Unmarshal function accepts case-insensitive object key matches
- more 10 details are avaliable in the paid ebooks.

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Tapir, the author of Go 101, has been on writing the Go 101 series books and maintaining the go101.org website since 2016 July. New contents will be continually added to the book and the website from time to time. Tapir is also an indie game developer. You can also support Go 101 by playing Tapir's games (made for both Android and iPhone/iPad):

Color Infection (★★★★★), a physics based original casual puzzle game. 140+ levels.
Rectangle Pushers (★★★★★), an original casual puzzle game. Two modes, 104+ levels.
Let's Play With Particles, a casual action original game. Three mini games are included.

Individual donations via PayPal are also welcome.