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Though it's now ten years old, Golang (Google's Go language) is one of the fastest growing languages out there right now. Do you want to learn it? Here are 10 great places to start.
1. Basics of GoLang for Beginners
This is a great place to get started from zero. If you're committed to downloading and installing it shows you how, and you dig into some basic stuff. It's a good start.
2. Go.Dev
This is a fairly new source so I haven't been able to dig into all the features of it, but it has tutorials for installing, doing a hello world, etc. It seems like the perfect jumping off point.
3. Tour of Go
This is a good place to start to get started as easy as possible. It doesn't have you building real applications, but you also don't have to install or setup anything.
4. Go by Example
This one digs a little deeper and tackles things like pointers and concurrency which are tough at first.
5. Go Bootcamp
This is a book in downloadable form or online, and it's well organized and clear for the basics.
6. Introducing Go
This is a great book to go from a total beginner to digging into deeper topics. It's well worth the price and is a great way to get started writing real applications.
7. Go Core Language Path
From beginner to Go expert in about 24 hours of courses. From the very basics to advanced there's something for everyone here.
8. Justforfunc YouTube Channel
The justforfunc youtube channel is great for digging into to Golang. Francesc Campoy is entertaining and knowledgeable. Check it out.
9. Golangbot - Golang Tutorial Series
This is a great series of tutorials for learning go, that's easy to follow and fun.
10. Gophercises
So now you know some Go and want to play? This is a great place to polish your skills. This site has some cool coding exercises to try out.
GO Learn some Golang!!
Golang is awesome. I love working with it, and you probably will too. The resources above are great places to get your feet wet and really start developing some cool stuff. What do you think of the list? Should I add anything? Reach out to me with suggestions!
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Some GopherCon video has a nice talks
youtube.com/channel/UCazkIMpjghmT8...
youtube.com/channel/UC9ZNrGdT2aAdr...
youtube.com/channel/UCZPhOgp4kDXkg...
Golang vs PHP7 (Chinese)
youtube.com/watch?v=oejfsK3d2o0
Twitter
twitter.com/hashtag/gophercon
Thanks for a great list. I really like go and have visited some of the sites mentioned.
I have used the following course on Udemy that I recommend:
udemy.com/course/go-the-complete-d...
Strictly not a "learn go" site, but I love exercism.io/ where you get a set of challenges and a mentor to evaluate the code.
Also, listening to the gotime podcast can be valuable (changelog.com/gotime)
Most people in the Golang community (including me) don't appreciate full-stack frameworks and (bloated) modules/libraries. I really don't want to see Go's awesome features being buried by a crappy culture/ecosystem such as the ones of PHP and Javascript (I worked with both in traditional web apps as well, unfortunately).
To add something: wasn't Julien Schmidt's HttpRouter or gorilla/mux alongisde the http library enough? There's also the, allegedly minimalist, Echo framework
What is Go used for? I've seen people talking about it, but I've never read anything about it's uses over other languages. I'd love some insight on why I should want to learn it.
Go is used for a variety of applications, but at this time the most popular usage seems to be server applications, web backend stuff and automation apps. Docker and Kubernetes are written with Go, among many others.
There isn't much in the way of visual things like GUIs, games, frontend etc. But it's quickly becoming the best way to write web services and APIs.
go101 is my favourite
Thanks for this. I've been meaning to start on Go for a long time and just wasn't sure what resources to use.
I think this is pretty good. You learn while writing tests.
Just Book for good understand technology .