Objectives:
- Understand the basic syntax and control structures of the language
- Apply Go's concurrency model to build massively parallel systems
- Grasp the purpose of types, which is especially important if you're coming from a dynamically typed language like Javascript or Ruby
- Organize code through the use of packages
- Use the Go runtime to build and compile projects
- Get insight into critical design decisions in the language
- Gain a sense of when to use basic language features