Merge branch 'develop'

Author: hegdeashwin

README.md

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 ## Table of content
 
-* Session 1: Introduction to Go & development environment. Visit: http://slides.com/ashwinhegde/learn-go-lang/fullscreen
-* Session 2: Variables, Types, Pointers and Constants.
-* Session 3: Functions.
-* Session 4: Branching & Loops.
-* Session 5: Maps, Slices.
-* Session 6: Methods & Interface.
-* Session 7: Concurrency.
-* Session 8: Web Application.
-* Session 9: Introduction to Martini - Go web framework.
+* Introduction to Go & development environment. Visit: http://slides.com/ashwinhegde/learn-go-lang/fullscreen
+* Session 1: Variables, Types, Pointers and Constants.
+* Session 2: Functions.
+* Session 3: Branching & Loops.
+* Session 4: Maps, Slices.
+* Session 5: Methods & Interface.
+* Session 6: Concurrency.
 
 ## Author & Contributors
 
-Developed & maintained by author: Ashwin Hegde
-
-Follow me at: [github](https://github.com/hegdeashwin) | [Linkedin](http://in.linkedin.com/in/hegdeashwin) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/hegdeashwin3)
-
 We really appreciate all kind of contributions. Special thanks to <a href="//github.com/hegdeashwin/learning-go-lang/graphs/contributors" target="_blank">contributors</a> for using and supporting learning-go-lang.
 
 To request a feature or you find any typo errors, enhancements or questions; please feel free to post it on following link, or vote for the ones that are already registered.

kit/practice-code/.gitkeep renamed to codes/practice-code/.gitkeep

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+/**
+ * Declare the file as main package.
+ */
+package main
+
+/**
+ * import format;
+ */
+import "fmt"
+
+/**
+ * Main function acts as a single entry point.
+ */
+func main() {
+
+	/**
+	 * Print a message
+	 */
+	fmt.Println("Hello World");
+
+	/**
+	 * Declare a variable with string type and assign a string value to it;
+	 * Type is optional.
+	 */
+	var message string
+	message = "Welcome to Go World!"
+
+	fmt.Println(message);
+
+	/**
+	 * Declare multiple variables with integer type and assign a integer values to them;
+	 * Type is optional.
+	 */
+	var a, b, c int = 1, 2, 3
+
+	fmt.Println(a, b, c);
+
+	/**
+	 * Declare a variable and assign a string value to it with short way;
+	 */
+	name := "Ashwin Hegde"
+	
+	fmt.Println(name)
+
+
+}

codes/session-1/helloworld.go

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+package main 
+
+import "fmt"
+
+func main() {
+
+	/**
+	 * Created message variable and assigned string to it.
+	 */
+	message := "Hello World"
+
+	/**
+	 * Created greeting string pointer to hold the memory address of message variable
+	 */
+	var greeting *string = &message
+
+	/**
+	 * Print message
+	 */
+	fmt.Println(message)
+
+	/**
+	 * Print greeting memory address
+	 */
+	fmt.Println(greeting)
+
+	/**
+	 * Print value of greeting
+	 */
+	fmt.Println(*greeting)
+
+	/**
+	 * Change pointer value, also change message value
+	 */
+	*greeting = "Welcome to the Go world!"
+
+	fmt.Println(message);
+
+	fmt.Println(*greeting);
+}

codes/session-1/pointer.go

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+package main
+
+import "fmt"
+
+/**
+ * User defined type customString act as string type
+ */
+type customString string
+
+/**
+ * User defined type userInfo act as struct type
+ */
+type userInfo struct {
+	name string
+	greeting string
+}
+
+func main() {
+
+	/**
+	 * Use customString as type
+	 */
+	var message customString = "Hello World!"
+	fmt.Println(message)
+
+	/**
+	 * 1 way: Assign values to userInfo struct
+	 */
+	var defaults = userInfo{};
+	defaults.name = "Unknown"
+	defaults.greeting = "Welcome"
+
+	fmt.Println(defaults.name)
+	fmt.Println(defaults.greeting)
+
+	/**
+	 * 2 way: Assign values to userInfo struct; Go by order
+	 */
+	var facebookProfile = userInfo{"Ashwin", "Hello!"}
+
+	fmt.Println(facebookProfile.name)
+	fmt.Println(facebookProfile.greeting)
+
+	/**
+	 * 3 way: Assign values to userInfo struct; Go by member name
+	 */
+	var linkedinProfile = userInfo{greeting: "Hello Go!", name: "Ashwin Hegde"}
+
+	fmt.Println(linkedinProfile.name)
+	fmt.Println(linkedinProfile.greeting)
+}