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This is a touchy topic. I learnt Go programming language & writing webapps in it after reading loads of books and articles which suffered from the curse of kno
by thewhitetulip 8y ago
This is a touchy topic.
I learnt Go programming language & writing webapps in it after reading loads of books and articles which suffered from the curse of knowledge.
I'd start with the first few chapters and then would be totally clueless.
I figured out that the curse of knowledge is huge. Once you learn how to write webapps they become trivial and that's the reason why few books written by "experts" targetting newbies are utterly of no use.
But of course that doesn't absolve the tutorial creator from her responsibility of writing a decent tutorial and with the advent of Github it has become a collaborative effort!
It is a sad thing that masters write books for beginners. No, a beginner shouldn't be taught how to use the stdlib, they don't understand half of the things (prose) mentioned in the book.
Lead by examples, show that it is not magic and that it is actually very easy to write a webapp in Go but it ia difficult to write a really good one.
Link to my tutorial:
https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...
I later did the same with Vue.js and Python but didn't get time to finish/update them.
I also run or used to run a youtube channel which also has got good positive feedback from new comers because they get to the point with practical examples