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I can highly recommend "The Go Programming Language". I find it extremely well written, and worth every penny. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0134190440 http:

I can highly recommend "The Go Programming Language". I find it extremely well written, and worth every penny. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0134190440 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0134190440

dpflan 11y ago
For sure, it's like the "C and R" for Go. Plus the source code for the examples is on Github. - Book Site: http://www.gopl.io/ http://www.gopl.io/ - Book Example Source Code: https://github.com/adonovan/gopl.io/ https://github.com/adonovan/gopl.io/
- aws_ls 11y ago
  You mean "K & R" for Go? :-)
  - dpflan 11y ago
    Ah, yeah - too late to edit! Please accept my apologies.
tptacek 11y ago
I didn't love it. I found it a little inconsistent, and I didn't learn that much from it; most of the Go blog posts have more insight than the book does. It's a fine introduction to the language! It's great that Go has a credible book. But if you're already familiar with Go, I think you can skip this. Happy to hear if other readers had different experiences.
- percept 11y ago
  I looked forward to a complete chapter on IO (not unlike http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Brian-W-Kernighan/dp/0131103628/ http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Brian-W-Kernighan...), but didn't see one. Perhaps a future edition...
ChemicalWarfare 11y ago
+1. Excellent book. Nice pragmatic examples that not only showcase Go's features but are also interesting from the purely algorithmic angle covering pretty decent range from bit-twiddling to some rather involved math (by my standards of course).