| This page links to resources for learning about concurrency in Go. The items are presented in order, from beginner material to advanced topics. |
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| ## Beginner |
| - Read [Effective Go: Concurrency](https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#concurrency) |
| - Study [The Go Programming Language Specification](https://golang.org/ref/spec), especially |
| - [Go statements](https://golang.org/ref/spec#Go_statements) |
| - [Channel types](https://golang.org/ref/spec#Channel_types) |
| - [Send statements](https://golang.org/ref/spec#Send_statements) |
| - [Receive operator](https://golang.org/ref/spec#Receive_operator) |
| - [Select statements](https://golang.org/ref/spec#Select_statements) |
| - Code [A Tour of Go: Concurrency](http://tour.golang.org/concurrency/1) |
| - Read the [Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)](http://golang.org/doc/faq), especially |
| - [Why build concurrency on the ideas of CSP?](http://golang.org/doc/faq#csp) |
| - [Why goroutines instead of threads?](http://golang.org/doc/faq#goroutines) |
| - [Why are map operations not defined to be atomic?](http://golang.org/doc/faq#atomic_maps) |
| - [What operations are atomic? What about mutexes?](http://golang.org/doc/faq#What_operations_are_atomic_What_about_mutexes) |
| - [Why doesn't my multi-goroutine program use multiple CPUs?](http://golang.org/doc/faq#Why_no_multi_CPU) |
| - [Why does using GOMAXPROCS > 1 sometimes make my program slower?](http://golang.org/doc/faq#Why_GOMAXPROCS) |
| - [What happens with closures running as goroutines?](http://golang.org/doc/faq#closures_and_goroutines) |
| - Study [Go by Example](https://gobyexample.com) from [goroutines](https://gobyexample.com/goroutines) through [stateful goroutines](https://gobyexample.com/stateful-goroutines) |
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| ## Intermediate |
| - Watch [Go Concurrency Patterns](https://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide#1) |
| - Read [Share Memory By Communicating](http://blog.golang.org/share-memory-by-communicating) and do the [codewalk](http://golang.org/doc/codewalk/sharemem/) |
| - Read [Go Concurrency Patterns: Timing out, moving on](http://blog.golang.org/go-concurrency-patterns-timing-out-and) |
| - Watch [Concurrency is not Parallelism](http://talks.golang.org/2012/waza.slide#1) |
| - Read [Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and Cancellation](http://blog.golang.org/pipelines) |
| - Study [Package sync](https://golang.org/pkg/sync/) |
| - Read [Introducing the Go Race Detector](http://blog.golang.org/race-detector) |
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| ## Advanced |
| - Watch [Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns](http://talks.golang.org/2013/advconc.slide#1) |
| - Read [Go Concurrency Patterns: Context](http://blog.golang.org/context) |
| - Study [The Go Memory Model](https://golang.org/ref/mem) |
| - Study [Package atomic](https://golang.org/pkg/sync/atomic/) |
