Welcome to the Go Language Tutorial – a beginner-friendly guide to learning Go (also known as Golang), a modern programming language designed for simplicity, performance, and reliability.

This tutorial covers the essential concepts of Go with simple, well-documented examples. Each topic includes explanations and code snippets to help you understand how things work in real-world scenarios.

• Getting Started (Hello World)
• Variables and Constants
• Data Types
• Type Casting
• Pointers
• Arrays and Slices
• Maps
• Structs
• Conditional Statements (if, else, switch)
• Loops (for, range)
• Control Statements (break, continue, goto)
• Functions
• Methods
• Defer
• File Handling

To run the examples, make sure you have Go installed:

go version

Clone this repository, visit the specific dir (topic) and run any file using:

go run main.go

/GoLang-Tutorial
│
├── README.md
├── readme.md
│
├── 01-hello-world            # Topic folder: Hello World
│   ├── README.md             # Topic-specific doc and explanation
│   ├── go.mod                # Module-specific file (optional, if standalone)
│   └── main.go               # Main Go file with example code
└── 02- ...

In Go, you can build and run your programs using the built-in go command-line tool. It compiles source code into an executable binary.

go build

# Build with executable name
go build -o app_name