A map is a very useful data type in Go.

In other language it’s also called dictionary or hash map or associative array.

Here’s how you create a map:

agesMap := make(map[string]int)

You don’t need to set how many items the map will hold.

You can add a new item to the map in this way:

agesMap["flavio"] = 39

You can also initialize the map with values directly using this syntax:

agesMap := map[string]int{"flavio": 39}

You can get the value associated with a key using:

age := agesMap["flavio"]

You can delete an item from the map using the delete() function in this way:

delete(agesMap, "flavio")

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	Introduction to Go
2:	Your first Go program
3:	Compiling and running Go programs
4:	Variables and types
5:	Operators
6:	Strings
7:	Arrays
8:	Slices
9:	▶︎ Maps
10:	Visualize your local Git contributions with Go
11:	Use Go to get a list of repositories from GitHub
12:	Building a CLI command with Go: cowsay
13:	Go CLI tutorial: fortune clone
14:	Build a Command Line app with Go: lolcat