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Mastering Concurrency in Go

Name: Mastering Concurrency in Go
Price: 59 USD
Rating: 4.5 (53 reviews)
Author: Educative

Gain insights into implementing concurrency in Go, explore common patterns, and learn to write efficient, practical applications leveraging Go's outstanding support for concurrency.

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35 lessons

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What's included

35 lessons across 3 modules
3 quizzes with instant feedback
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What You'll Learn

Differentiate concurrency from parallelism and decompose problems into coordinated subtasks
Implement goroutines using the fork-join model and predict effects on program execution order
Use channels (buffered/unbuffered) with range/close to safely synchronize and pass data
Apply select and for-select loops to manage multiple channels, timeouts, and blocking behavior
Detect and prevent data races and race conditions using Go’s race detector and synchronization
Avoid deadlocks and starvation by analyzing Coffman conditions and improving resource handling
Apply WaitGroups, mutexes, and sync tools (Pool, Once, Cond) to coordinate safe shared access

Learning Roadmap

35 Lessons3 Quizzes2 Assessments

Introduction to Concurrency

Get familiar with concurrency concepts, including data races, deadlocks, CSP, and resource management.

An Introduction to Concurrency

Concurrency vs. Parallelism

Communicating Sequential Processes

Data Races and Race Conditions

Deadlocks

Starvation

Quiz on Basic Concurrency Concepts

Building Blocks of Concurrency in Go

Grasp the fundamentals of concurrency in Go with goroutines, channels, sync methods, and practical exercises.

Introduction to Goroutines

Goroutines: Explained Further

Channels

Buffered Channels

Exercise: Merge Sort

Solution Review: Merge Sort

Select Statement

Exercise: Buzz Game

Solution Review: Buzz Game

WaitGroups

Exercise: Multiplication Table

Solution Review: Multiplication Table

Mutex

The 'sync' Package

The 'runtime' Package

Prefix Sum Problem : A Concurrent Approach

Quiz on Building Blocks of Concurrency

Exam I on Mastering Concurrency in Go

Assessment

Basic Concurrency Patterns in Go

11 Lessons

Master the steps to implement efficient concurrency patterns in Go using channels and goroutines.

Exam II on Mastering Concurrency in Go

Assessment

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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