So, if you are is because you want to learn GO, and is possible that you comes from a Java platform, if not I recommend you to learn java.

If you want to start with Go, of course you need to install it first. While I could create a long detailed guide to install, but go.dev has already one that is very good. You can follow the instructions provided by them in Go Download and Installation page.

go.dev have several tutorials, that you can find in the Go Tutorials section, but before you dive in, I highly recommend you should start with Tutorial: Get Started with Go this tutorial has the classic “hello world” example. For this tutorial you need to have an IDE or a notepad to start writing Go code. My personal recommendation is to use IntelliJ, however you need to use the Ultimately version to use Go, but, you can use it the ones that Go recommend in the section of Editor plugins and IDEs, especially Visual Studio Code, you can find in the Go – Visual Studio Marketplace hot to install the The VS Code Go extension.

Continuing with the recommendations, I recommend you to continue with A Tour of Go this tutorial as is mentioned in go.dev is “an interactive introduction to Go: basic syntax and data structures; methods and interfaces; and Go’s concurrency primitives”. If you have experience with the programming languages you will find it useful.

If you are a pro with the programming or look for something like the creation of a web service you can review the Go Tutorials and the Effective Go.

I hope this is useful for you, and we can continue learning Go comparing with Java.

Happy Learning!!!