New Book: An Introduction to Programming in Go

[Caleb Doxsey]

I just released the (free) online version of a book I've been working on:

http://www.golang-book.com/ 

It's a short introductory text on programming using Go.

[Maxim Boyarskiy]

A nice TOC.
Thank you for your work.

p.s. there are bad formating like

import ("net/http" ; "io")from time to time.

вторник, 4 сентября 2012 г., 10:08:57 UTC+7 пользователь Caleb Doxsey написал:

[Paul]

Very nice book, however I don't use Windows and I don't even know what OSX is although it kinda looks like  Unix to me. A reference to the playground and golang.org would have been helpful for folks who would like to play around with it a bit without the install. 

Thanks.

[Michael Jones]

Paul, not sure where you are that OS X is unknown and unable to be
searched for using Google or referenced in WikiPedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X) , but if this mail can
successfully reach you there then know that OS X is the name for
Apple's amalgam of Mach, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, GNU, and home-grown tools.
To quote from WikiPedia, "As of September 2011, OS X is the second
most active general-purpose client operating system in use on the
World Wide Web, after Microsoft Windows, with an 8.45% usage share
according to statistics compiled by W3Counter.[36] It is the most
successful Unix-like desktop operating system on the web, estimated at
over 5 times the usage of Linux (which has 1.5%)."

It is great that Go has made it all the way to wherever you are.

--
Michael T. Jones | Chief Technology Advocate | m...@google.com | +1
650-335-5765

[Paul]

<< Paul, not sure where you are that OS X is unknown ...>>

I guess I must be more of a Server & command-line guy and I am very happy using Ubuntu LTS, which incidently is also very well supported for Go development :-)

However, whats really an Interesting coincidence: just today I came across this Article on Groklaw.net: http://www.zdnet.com/the-truth-about-goobuntu-googles-in-house-desktop-ubuntu-linux-7000003462/ „For the first time, Google reveals some details about its desktop of choice: Ubuntu.

Actually one of the main reasons that I  trust and appreciate Go so much is because one of its inventors is Ken Thompson, who is also one of the creators of Unix.

Thanks and have a great day :-)

[Allan Queiroz]

I bought it on Amazon :)

[Uriel]

Haven't had time to read all of it, but looks cool.

Just one comment: I would strongly recommend replacing the section on
container/list with an explanation of how to properly and
idiomatically use slices.

New Go users tend to badly overuse container/* and instead of learning
the core slice idioms.

This was a bigger problem before container/vector was removed, but I
still see plenty of people now using container/List when a slice would
work just fine.

Uriel

[Caleb Doxsey]

Thanks for the feedback. Slices are explained in chapter 6, but a warning about misuse (like I did with sync) is probably a good idea.

[jemeshsu]

Great work thanks.

Now I hope some expert will write a book on Go Concurrency Design Pattern.

[JHDjr]

Just came across your book and it seems an ideal way for those who are learning GO as their first language to get started.  As an Ubuntu user I would love to see an addendum that address the installing on Debian based distros.  As newbie, I have struggled getting the archive I downloaded from the GO wiki.  The thought of a one-click download in the Ubuntu Software Center is what I dream of...

Thanks for your efforts..