Learning Go

Ready to learn Go?

Start exploring Go by writing tests with Learn Go with Tests.

Above all, I’d recommend the The Go Programming Language book. It was published in 2015, but thanks to the stability of the Go language, this is still the best book for picking up Go.

Watch

• The Why of Go
• Simplicity Is Complicated, Rob Pike
• Concurrency Is Not Parallelism, Rob Pike
• A Tour of Go, Russ Cox
• Go: building on the shoulders of giants and stepping on a few toes

Read and do

• The Go Programming Language ⭑
• Learn Go with Tests ⭑
• A Tour of Go
• Effective Go
• Package Docs
• Language Specification
• Many links on golang.org Documentation. Especially the codewalks.

Golang news and updates

• Official blog
• The Go Gazette
• Golang Weekly
• r/golang on Reddit
• My Twitter list of Golang folks

Cheatsheets

• Learn Go in Y Minutes
• a8m/go-lang-cheat-sheet
• devhints.io/go

Practice

• Gophercises

Podcasts and video series

• Go Time
• Just for Func

Linting

• golangci-lint
  • Configurable meta linter

Development

export GOPATH=~/go
export PATH="$GOPATH/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(gimme 1.12.7)"

• Versions of Go
  • Use gimme for easy version switching: brew install gimme; eval "$(gimme 1.12.7)"
  • Add the code above to your shell init script: ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, etc
• Use Go modules (read this wiki)
  • You can either:
    • A: git clone the code outside your GOPATH (ie, next to your other code) to use go modules automatically (recommended)
    • B: set GO111MODULE=on and keep your Go code in your GOPATH

IDE Tools

• VS Code
  • Go modules in VS Code

And finally… the Go Gopher!

• Learn about Go’s adorable mascot, the Go Gopher, created by Renee French.