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I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code
- jadbox 7y agoThanks for making this public! The notes are well written and easy enough to follow. Cheers!
- luckylittle 7y agoNicely packaged notes, i will clone this to my archive, thanks for sharing ;-)
- Avyiel 7y agoVery well put-together, this is certainly an excellent learning experience.
- navd 7y agoNot Bill, but I work for Ardan. I’m happy you enjoyed the class! Bill works tirelessly on this stuff and I’m sure he’ll be happy to see you got something out of it. As an aside, there’s nothing like attending a training in person and I highly recommend it. NOT because I work for Ardan, but because the quality is top notch. And Bill is really entertaining to watch teach X-D
- hoanhan101 7y agoAbsolutely! I will definitely attend the training in person when I have the chance.
- navd 7y agoWhere are you located? We’re doing a 3 day in Miami next month.
- hoanhan101 7y agoI'm in Albany New York. Not sure if I can go the one next month.
- ncputo 7y agoBill will actually be in Albany next month too - https://sites.google.com/view/devfest-gdg-capitalregion https://sites.google.com/view/devfest-gdg-capitalregion
- hoanhan101 7y agoThanks for sharing!
- biomcgary 7y agoOne of my team members in Miami is new to Go and might benefit from the training. I couldn't find any info online though.
- mattio 7y agoDo you also facilitate trainings in Europe? (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- jungturk 7y agoThese guys teach all over the world. We just hosted a course in the states. Their schedule is public and shows them on most continents: https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining#current-schedule https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining#current-schedule
- bulte-rs 7y agoIf Ardan does not have something available, please reach out to me. We might have time available to accomodate in NL (not trying to steal stuff grom Ardan here, love what they do and offer!)
- zegl 7y agoI've had the pleasure of meeting Bill in person when we where speaking at the same conference a while back. I can really vouch for Bill, he is one of the best teachers out there!
- ValentineC 7y agoAnother vouch for Bill here. He's also a great speaker at conferences! There's a list of his publicly-available talks on the Ardan Labs training repo: https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining#william-kennedy-goinggodotnet https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining#william-kennedy-goin...
- jmcguckin 7y agoBill needs to stop drinking so much coffee. The guy is waving his arms around like a maniac.
- deaddodo 7y agoI just reviewed some of your notes in comments, especially the CPU ones in the array source. I think they'd be a great introduction on general computer science to someone who may not have done much beyond ultra high level languages (JavaScript, python, Ruby, etc). Good work!
- hoanhan101 7y agoThanks for taking your time to review it.
- aredirect 7y agoThank you! such great effort
- vidoss 7y agoGreat work. I will start adding stories to this repo using https://storytime.dev https://storytime.dev
- rafaele 7y agoThe design guidelines (https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining/blob/master/topics/go/README.md#design-guidelines https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining/blob/master/topics/g...) are especially good. And it's not go-specific, it can be applied to any software crafting tool.
- hoanhan101 7y agoAgree! I also included that in my note.
- mytailorisrich 7y ago[deleted]
- ajdlinux 7y agoI read that differently in light of the section heading "These Days Are Gone".
- mytailorisrich 7y agoNo this is not a section heading. This is a statement referring to what's before it. We cannot "throw more developpers at the problem". First because they are expensive. But also because that makes management exponentially expensive while necessarily helping with delivery (lump of work fallacy). Or you are correct and this is appallingly bad drafting and formatting.
- thewhitetulip 7y agoWe learn by coding That's why I wrote a book which teaches Go web dev example https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...
- giancarlostoro 7y agoNice book, I forked it a while back to make PRs on formatting and typos. I prefer these type of books, I wish more writes did this before publishing so it can be polished by the community before it hits the printers.
- thewhitetulip 7y agoIt isn't about printing. It is about the approach. Books for newbies are written by those with 15 30 yr experience. They write using their advanced understanding which is very difficult for newcomers to understand
- dzyanis 7y agoThat's cool! Already thinking how to combine it with my Roadmap https://github.com/dzyanis/roadmap https://github.com/dzyanis/roadmap
- bradhoffman 7y agoThis is the first time I've been introduced the concept of a Developer Roadmap, and I love it! Thank you so much for sharing and linking your sources as well! I am definitely going to do this.
- dzyanis 7y agoYou are welcome! Unfortunately, right now it's just in pre-alpha but I will try to finish asap
- Adracus 7y agoGreat intro into how to write nice Go code! One comment regarding interface pollution: While I agree that in many cases it's not needed to introduce an interface, sometimes interfaces help you hide the implementor type: I've now already had it multiple times that I switched from a 'struct implementor' to a 'func type implementor' without breaking compatabilities. Also, by exposing a struct, you also immediately expose that you can create a zero value of that type, which doesn't happen for an interface.
- hoanhan101 7y agoThanks for the suggestion. Feel free to open a PR if you like!
- sashankryal 7y agoThanks for posting. Really helpful for those of us who are just getting started with Golang
- KuhlMensch 7y agoLooks good. I will read it and report back
- olah_1 7y agoLearn Go with Tests is the best programming language course I've ever gone through. https://github.com/quii/learn-go-with-tests https://github.com/quii/learn-go-with-tests That's all. Just sharing that the methodology worked so well. I felt like I could legitimately jump right into a Go developer team.
- dhuramas 7y agoI can't upvote this enough. I am going through this course- and it is fabulous. Covers tests, and even though the topic names might seem easy or trivial(I mean there is only so many ways you can write loops or define arrays), they include a lot of "extras" that make it fun- for example one of the topics might include details about how to write doctests and docs, another one might introduce table driven tests and provide advice on when to use them. Overall it is great. I'd be very interested in seeing this approach applied to other language courses.
- loudmax 7y agoThe Rust Programming Language book includes tests and how to break down code into packages and other good habits: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ Coming from a background in scripting languages, Rust is still a lot more difficult to learn than Go, but I found that book very helpful.
- faitswulff 7y agoIf you like TDD, checkout rustlings https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings/ https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings/. I'd recommend https://exercism.io/ https://exercism.io/, but there's such a shortage of mentors for the Rust track that you can get blocked very easily waiting for feedback. One of my solutions went un-mentored for over a month - and it was only after I asked someone directly to mentor my solution that it passed. If that weren't a problem, I would highly recommend exercism.io
- olah_1 7y agoUnfortunately, the code examples in the Rust book still feels like toy projects / toy code. What I like about the Go book is that it feels production-ready, even though it is simple. This is because it is following industry best practices. There's no "code in isolation", if that makes sense.
- peteridah 7y agoI attended the ultimate go course last year. I loved the in-depth nature of the curriculum... oh and yes, Bill is simply the best :)
- plinkplonk 7y agoFor anyone confused about what Ultimate Go is (I was, I first thought it was a book that taught you Go the game, then after reading some comments thought it was a book that taught Go the Language, with exercises) it is a (paid) video course that teaches you golang, available from OReilly.
- ValentineC 7y agoIt's also available as an in-person workshop [1], and I believe corporate trainings are a significant part of the Ardan Labs business model. They also do shorter versions of their workshops at Go conferences. They're huge contributors to the Go community via their conference workshops, and I can't thank them enough for the knowledge that they've gathered, refined, and shared all these years. (I help organise GopherCon Singapore.) [1] https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining
- Timucin 7y agoI watched Ultimate Go on Safari Books a while ago and recently got back to it to revise my knowledge. It will fill all the gaps and answer all the questions one can have, especially after the Tour of Go or reading a book which only scratches the surface. I can't express enough how amazing that course and how useful what Hoanh did. Once you finish, I'd also suggest to take a look to the Ardan Lab's github account since there are tons of material for Go. Bill's presentation also made me giggle a lot -which is a rare thing for tutorials- since he says things like If I see an interface and it doesn't smell right, and I'll be asking the developer, why are you using an interface here? Now if the developer gives me any one of these two answers, we're gonna go take a walk. as if this is a movie and he's going to take the developer to the woods to execute because the developer done wrong Bill :)
- sonfat505 7y agoThanks so much for putting this together!
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