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Resources to learn Go

96 points by andygrunwald 11y ago

spotman 11y ago
+1 for gobyexample that is my favorite resource, especially once you have broken ground, and are somewhere in-between having all the basics of the syntax mostly mastered, but some of the tidbits of the standard library not yet mastered.
no1youknowz 11y ago
Thank you. This sort of thing (coming from a PHP/Python) background is what I am looking for. Would love to see one day examples of doing something in PHP/Python and then how to do it in Golang. Ultimately, I see myself dropping PHP in favour of Golang for my front-end stuff and continuing with HHVM/PHP for my backend development. My daemons on servers are currently running in Python and do see them ported over to Golang in the future. So +1 from me.
- andygrunwald 11y ago
  > Would love to see one day examples of doing something in PHP/Python and then how to do it in Golang. Do you got some specific examples you want to see? For some usecases i don`t know if this would make sense to port in 1 by 1 from PHP to Golang (because of lack of features on both sides). But maybe you can name some pieces of code / examples.
sshb 11y ago
Nice summary. Contributing to existing project is one more way to learn Golang. Perfect if you have some exotic needs which are not covered in existing golang libraries.
zachgersh 11y ago
I want to throw the little go book into the ring as another great resource: http://openmymind.net/The-Little-Go-Book/ http://openmymind.net/The-Little-Go-Book/ Short and also freely available.
philip1209 11y ago
I learned from John Graham-Cumming's O'Reilly video series. When I reviewed some of the Go books, I was frustrated by code samples with so many "we'll get to this later" parts. John's videos had a good pace, thoroughly explained concepts, and prepared me to write real code. The only downside was that they were expensive - if you are able to expense them, I highly recommend the videos.
- jupiter909 11y ago
  Indeed so. This series gives a very practical real world view of how to use and apply the language.
ConAntonakos 11y ago
I've been reading this e-book: https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro Really enjoying it thus far!
- vishalzone2002 11y ago
  mw too.. find this one really helpful
ConAntonakos 11y ago
Also, slightly off-topic, but is there anything like Go by Example for something like C or C++?
bradleyankrom 11y ago
I'll give a +1 to Go in Action (Manning)[1]; the MEAP has improved quite a bit over the last couple of months, particularly with the rewrite of the chapter about types. [1] http://manning.com/ketelsen/ http://manning.com/ketelsen/
mattetti 11y ago
Since my free/open source ebook didn't make the cut, please excuse the self promotion: http://www.golangbootcamp.com/ http://www.golangbootcamp.com/ I hope it will help some of you :)
- jzawodn 11y ago
  I've used it recently. Thanks for the obvious effort that went into it.
myg204 11y ago
Waiting for this Kernighan piece: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/0134190440/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1434841954&sr=8-4&keywords=kernighan http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Addison-Wesley-Pr...
chrissnell 11y ago
Maybe I missed it but I didn't see this mentioned: http://gobyexample.com http://gobyexample.com This site helped me tremendously. I still reference it all the time when I'm uncertain about something.
- andygrunwald 11y ago
  This site is genius. It was mentioned in the blog article under "Further useful resources".
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readams 11y ago
My recommendation would be not to learn go.
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BooneJS 11y ago
One can also peruse the Camlistore source code at http://camlistore.org http://camlistore.org. It was a project started by Brad Fitzpatrick, the guy famous for owning Nest Protect smoke alarms. ;)
- pdmccormick 11y ago
  Also famous for the original Perl implementation of memcached ... and LiveJournal. And Perlbal.
digitalyatri 11y ago
This is another good resource http://www.miek.nl/downloads/Go/Learning-Go-latest.pdf http://www.miek.nl/downloads/Go/Learning-Go-latest.pdf

96 points by andygrunwald 11y ago

+1 for gobyexample that is my favorite resource, especially once you have broken ground, and are somewhere in-between having all the basics of the syntax mostly mastered, but some of the tidbits of the standard library not yet mastered.

no1youknowz 11y ago

Thank you. This sort of thing (coming from a PHP/Python) background is what I am looking for. Would love to see one day examples of doing something in PHP/Python and then how to do it in Golang. Ultimately, I see myself dropping PHP in favour of Golang for my front-end stuff and continuing with HHVM/PHP for my backend development. My daemons on servers are currently running in Python and do see them ported over to Golang in the future. So +1 from me.

andygrunwald 11y ago
> Would love to see one day examples of doing something in PHP/Python and then how to do it in Golang. Do you got some specific examples you want to see? For some usecases i don`t know if this would make sense to port in 1 by 1 from PHP to Golang (because of lack of features on both sides). But maybe you can name some pieces of code / examples.

sshb 11y ago

Nice summary. Contributing to existing project is one more way to learn Golang. Perfect if you have some exotic needs which are not covered in existing golang libraries.

zachgersh 11y ago

I want to throw the little go book into the ring as another great resource: http://openmymind.net/The-Little-Go-Book/ http://openmymind.net/The-Little-Go-Book/ Short and also freely available.

philip1209 11y ago

I learned from John Graham-Cumming's O'Reilly video series. When I reviewed some of the Go books, I was frustrated by code samples with so many "we'll get to this later" parts. John's videos had a good pace, thoroughly explained concepts, and prepared me to write real code. The only downside was that they were expensive - if you are able to expense them, I highly recommend the videos.

jupiter909 11y ago
Indeed so. This series gives a very practical real world view of how to use and apply the language.

ConAntonakos 11y ago

I've been reading this e-book: https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro Really enjoying it thus far!

vishalzone2002 11y ago
mw too.. find this one really helpful

ConAntonakos 11y ago

Also, slightly off-topic, but is there anything like Go by Example for something like C or C++?

bradleyankrom 11y ago

I'll give a +1 to Go in Action (Manning)[1]; the MEAP has improved quite a bit over the last couple of months, particularly with the rewrite of the chapter about types. [1] http://manning.com/ketelsen/ http://manning.com/ketelsen/

mattetti 11y ago

Since my free/open source ebook didn't make the cut, please excuse the self promotion: http://www.golangbootcamp.com/ http://www.golangbootcamp.com/ I hope it will help some of you :)

jzawodn 11y ago
I've used it recently. Thanks for the obvious effort that went into it.

myg204 11y ago

Waiting for this Kernighan piece: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/0134190440/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1434841954&sr=8-4&keywords=kernighan http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Addison-Wesley-Pr...

chrissnell 11y ago

Maybe I missed it but I didn't see this mentioned: http://gobyexample.com http://gobyexample.com This site helped me tremendously. I still reference it all the time when I'm uncertain about something.

andygrunwald 11y ago
This site is genius. It was mentioned in the blog article under "Further useful resources".

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readams 11y ago

My recommendation would be not to learn go.

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BooneJS 11y ago

One can also peruse the Camlistore source code at http://camlistore.org http://camlistore.org. It was a project started by Brad Fitzpatrick, the guy famous for owning Nest Protect smoke alarms. ;)

pdmccormick 11y ago
Also famous for the original Perl implementation of memcached ... and LiveJournal. And Perlbal.

digitalyatri 11y ago

This is another good resource http://www.miek.nl/downloads/Go/Learning-Go-latest.pdf http://www.miek.nl/downloads/Go/Learning-Go-latest.pdf