This could sound like a joke, but I'm totally serious. Build a 2048 game. There are loads of examples, the interaction is slick, and people will play it. Then l

This could sound like a joke, but I'm totally serious. Build a 2048 game. There are loads of examples, the interaction is slick, and people will play it. Then launch a flask app on heroku -- heroku has a great tutorial for exactly that. It takes half a day if you know absolutely nothing going into it. Then build a tool for yourself or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or someone who is close enough to give you real feedback. Build it with rails using a trendy js framework. I suggest react, at the concept level it seems to make the most sense to me. Iterate on it for a few weeks. Now you are employable. Then learn go. That's my opinion.