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Golang Introduction

Working with Cosmos also often means working with Golang. If you have not worked much with Go, do not worry.

This introduction to Golang is meant as a useful overview of Go and as such, a starting point for your journey in the Cosmos Ecosystem and developing with the Cosmos SDK.

You can also use it as a refresher if you feel a bit rusty when it comes to Go.

# In this chapter

In this chapter, you will:

  • Get a high-level introduction to Golang.
  • Discover basic types, string formatting, functions, and methods.
  • Begin exploring interfaces in Go.
  • Find an introduction to control structures in Go with a closer look at if, switch, and for statements.
  • Learn more about arrays and slices, as well as standard packages Go offers.
  • Take a look at Go's built-in concurrency by exploring Goroutine and channels.

# Next up

Knowing your way around Golang is part of being a Cosmos SDK developer. If you feel like you need an introduction to Golang or a refresher, the next sections provide an introduction to Golang and working with it.

Feel free to skip this chapter if you do not need a refresher and start your journey with the Week 1 content, which will be available by September 15th at 4 pm UTC when the program officially starts.

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