What is ChatGPT? Recently, OpenAI has released the research version of ChatGPT, a chatbot using a natural language processing (NLP) model that can answer various questions ranging from weather forecasts to writing an API for weather forecasts. What’s so special about ChatGPT? It is designed to be conversational, and its goal is to make AI communicate with humans…

For any MVC framework, we often see the need to transform a JSON into model and vice versa. In Golang, it’s a lot similar to other languages, just minor syntax difference. Say we have a list of JSONs that look like var dogs = [ {…

Channels and goroutines are two unique features Golang has. It’s supposed to make concurrent programming easy. Each concurrent program is a goroutine. Even the main.go we’ve been running by itself is a goroutine. Making a func a goroutine is simple. …

Struct is like an object where you define the attributes inside. The typical example to go for is a car object. In Go, we can define it like this: type Car struct { Wheels int Model string Brand string Color string } func main() { // we can initialize…

Go’s if statements are simple. It’s basically the same as any other language with some minor difference in syntax. myAnimal := "dog" fmt.Println(myAnimal) if myAnimal == "dog" { fmt.Println("it's a dog") } else if myAnimal == "cat" { fmt.Println("it's a cat") } else if myAnimal == "owl"…

If you use python as your main language, you should be familiar with dictionary (if fact, you should be familiar with it regardless). It’s a key-value pair where searching takes constant time given they key name, a very efficient way to store data you want to search. Go has the…

For those who code in languages like python, pointer is a more unfamiliar concept. It’s weird to see an asterisk or any sort of symbol in front of a variable. How does it react when using a pointer versus a simple variable? Pointers are, well, pointing to the specific address…

We will continue with our series. Today we are talking about variables including how to assign it, how to use it, and the syntax of it. If you have experience using other languages and come to Go, you’ll notice a big difference in Go. Normally, for a language like Python…

I’m new to Go. I’ve read about it but never used it. Because of some reasons, we are building a service in Go. It’s the best chance for me to learn, and I want to document it. I hope someone who’s reading this might find it helpful. We are going…