First, let's take a look at below Go interview question:package mainconst s = "Go101.org"// len(s) == 9// 1 << 9 == 512// 512 / 128 == 4var a byte = 1 << len(s) / 128var b byte = 1 << len(s[:]) / 128func main() { println(a, b)}What would be the output in your mind? The output would be 4 0. Surprising?Before getting to the output values, some concepts in Go need to be introduced and explained in more detail.len() len() is a built-in function in Go to get the length of array, slice or string. There is one important statement about len() in Go specification.For some argume...

In GoLang, it doesn't support method overloading like in Java, hence sometimes it would be a headache to create functions to construct new structs with different parameters. Normally, we would construct the new function as below when want to let others create a new struct instance with explicit function call.type Queue struct { Name string}func NewQueue(name string) *Queue { return &Queue{name}}But with the scope and complexity of the struct increases, there might be more properties added to Queue.type Queue struct { Name string MaxLimit int}How to enhance the NewQueue() to accomo...

Usually, image processing software will provide blur filter to make images blur.There are many algorithms to implement blur, one of them is called Gaussian Blur Algorithm. It utilizes Gaussian distribution to process images.This article is to introduce Gaussian Blur algorithm, you will find this is a simple algorithm. In fact, it is a kind of data smoothing which can be used in many situations.1. Gaussian Blur theoryThe so called blur can be understood as taking a pixel as the average value of its surrounding pixels.On the above graph, 2 is the center point, the surrounding points are 1.The ce...

When we try to install wxPython lib on Ubuntu system to do software GUI development,most of time we may meet some installation and lib dependency problems. For the latest Ubuntu version, the problems still happen. Below are some common problems which happened frequently and their solution:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Problem [1]: Install wxPython on Ubuntu 20.04 fail because of dependency package Gtk is not installed.Error Message:No package 'gtk+-3.0' found Package gthread-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config sea...

There is some case where some of the struct in GoLang which is not meant to be copied. For example, sometimes a global configuration which should have only one version passed around the whole application and should not be copied and modified.In GoLang, there is no intuitive solution on preventing copying of struct. But there is still some way which can be leveraged to help prevent this while developing the code. The trick is to define some struct implementing sync.Locker interface and has this struct embedded in any struct not meant to be copied.// noCopy may be embedded into structs which mus...

Today, there are many tools that developers can use to create an API, meaning that some of them can come up with an API within a matter of minutes. However, there is a vast difference between just creating an API and building one that meets all your expectations, is reliable and secure. Some developers create APIs that work well but forget some basic things that, within no time, bring a lot of issues to the API users. In this article, we are going to talk about the basic mistakes that developers make when creating APIs.Image Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photography-of-person-typing-118...

In C programming, if using return in main function, the whole process will terminate. To only let main thread gone, and keep other threads live, you can use thrd_exit in main function. Check following code:#include #include #include intprint_thread(void *s){ thrd_detach(thrd_current()); for (size_t i = 0; i < 5; i++) { sleep(1); printf("i=%zu\n", i); } thrd_exit(0);}intmain(void){ thrd_t tid; if (thrd_success != thrd_create(&tid, print_thread, NULL)) { fprintf(stderr, "Create thread err...

Sometimes when handling a long running process, there would be need to track the progress so that people know something is still running instead of doubting something goes wrong. In this case, a progress bar which indicates the current status and progress would be desired.This post will show an example on how to implement progress bar using GoLang. Let's take a look at the final outcome first before jumping into the implementation detail.The key in the implementation is actually just the \r control flag for fmt.Printf(). \r is actually the carriage return control which tells the cursor to move...