I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code

https://github.com/hoanhan101/ultimate-go

by hoanhan101 • 7 years ago

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jadbox• 7 years ago

Thanks for making this public! The notes are well written and easy enough to follow. Cheers!

luckylittle• 7 years ago

Nicely packaged notes, i will clone this to my archive, thanks for sharing ;-)

Avyiel• 7 years ago

Very well put-together, this is certainly an excellent learning experience.

navd2• 7 years ago

Not Bill, but I work for Ardan. I’m happy you enjoyed the class! Bill works tirelessly on this stuff and I’m sure he’ll be happy to see you got something out of it.

As an aside, there’s nothing like attending a training in person and I highly recommend it. NOT because I work for Ardan, but because the quality is top notch. And Bill is really entertaining to watch teach X-D

hoanhan1017• 7 years ago

Absolutely! I will definitely attend the training in person when I have the chance.

navd2• 7 years ago

Where are you located? We’re doing a 3 day in Miami next month.

mattio• 7 years ago

Do you also facilitate trainings in Europe? (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

jungturk• 7 years ago

These guys teach all over the world. We just hosted a course in the states.

Their schedule is public and shows them on most continents: https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining#current-schedule

bulte-rs• 7 years ago

If Ardan does not have something available, please reach out to me. We might have time available to accomodate in NL (not trying to steal stuff grom Ardan here, love what they do and offer!)

zegl• 7 years ago

I've had the pleasure of meeting Bill in person when we where speaking at the same conference a while back.

I can really vouch for Bill, he is one of the best teachers out there!

ValentineC2• 7 years ago

Another vouch for Bill here. He's also a great speaker at conferences!

There's a list of his publicly-available talks on the Ardan Labs training repo:

https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining#william-kennedy-goin...

jmcguckin• 7 years ago

Bill needs to stop drinking so much coffee. The guy is waving his arms around like a maniac.

deaddodo• 7 years ago

I just reviewed some of your notes in comments, especially the CPU ones in the array source. I think they'd be a great introduction on general computer science to someone who may not have done much beyond ultra high level languages (JavaScript, python, Ruby, etc). Good work!

hoanhan1017• 7 years ago

Thanks for taking your time to review it.

aredirect• 7 years ago

Thank you! such great effort

vidoss• 7 years ago

Great work. I will start adding stories to this repo using https://storytime.dev

rafaele• 7 years ago

The design guidelines (https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining/blob/master/topics/g...) are especially good. And it's not go-specific, it can be applied to any software crafting tool.

hoanhan1017• 7 years ago

Agree! I also included that in my note.

mytailorisrich2• 7 years ago

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ajdlinux• 7 years ago

I read that differently in light of the section heading "These Days Are Gone".

thewhitetulip2• 7 years ago

We learn by coding

That's why I wrote a book which teaches Go web dev example

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

giancarlostoro• 7 years ago

Nice book, I forked it a while back to make PRs on formatting and typos. I prefer these type of books, I wish more writes did this before publishing so it can be polished by the community before it hits the printers.

thewhitetulip2• 7 years ago

It isn't about printing. It is about the approach.

Books for newbies are written by those with 15 30 yr experience. They write using their advanced understanding which is very difficult for newcomers to understand

dzyanis2• 7 years ago

That's cool! Already thinking how to combine it with my Roadmap https://github.com/dzyanis/roadmap

bradhoffman• 7 years ago

This is the first time I've been introduced the concept of a Developer Roadmap, and I love it! Thank you so much for sharing and linking your sources as well! I am definitely going to do this.

dzyanis2• 7 years ago

You are welcome! Unfortunately, right now it's just in pre-alpha but I will try to finish asap

Adracus• 7 years ago

Great intro into how to write nice Go code! One comment regarding interface pollution: While I agree that in many cases it's not needed to introduce an interface, sometimes interfaces help you hide the implementor type: I've now already had it multiple times that I switched from a 'struct implementor' to a 'func type implementor' without breaking compatabilities. Also, by exposing a struct, you also immediately expose that you can create a zero value of that type, which doesn't happen for an interface.

hoanhan1017• 7 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. Feel free to open a PR if you like!

sashankryal• 7 years ago

Thanks for posting. Really helpful for those of us who are just getting started with Golang

KuhlMensch• 7 years ago

Looks good. I will read it and report back

olah_13• 7 years ago

Learn Go with Tests is the best programming language course I've ever gone through.

https://github.com/quii/learn-go-with-tests

That's all. Just sharing that the methodology worked so well. I felt like I could legitimately jump right into a Go developer team.

dhuramas• 7 years ago

I can't upvote this enough.

I am going through this course- and it is fabulous. Covers tests, and even though the topic names might seem easy or trivial(I mean there is only so many ways you can write loops or define arrays), they include a lot of "extras" that make it fun- for example one of the topics might include details about how to write doctests and docs, another one might introduce table driven tests and provide advice on when to use them. Overall it is great.

I'd be very interested in seeing this approach applied to other language courses.

loudmax• 7 years ago

The Rust Programming Language book includes tests and how to break down code into packages and other good habits: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

Coming from a background in scripting languages, Rust is still a lot more difficult to learn than Go, but I found that book very helpful.

tictoc• 7 years ago

I feel like tests have always been the best way for me to understand what's actually going on in the code. Seems like a great way to learn!

cp9• 7 years ago

learn go with tests is great. I still refer to it occasionally even though I finished it a long time ago

Grogglex• 7 years ago

Is there something similar too this for Python or Django?

olah_13• 7 years ago

Probably Test-Driven Development with Python.

http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/pages/book.html

peteridah• 7 years ago

I attended the ultimate go course last year. I loved the in-depth nature of the curriculum... oh and yes, Bill is simply the best :)

plinkplonk• 7 years ago

For anyone confused about what Ultimate Go is (I was, I first thought it was a book that taught you Go the game, then after reading some comments thought it was a book that taught Go the Language, with exercises) it is a (paid) video course that teaches you golang, available from OReilly.

ValentineC2• 7 years ago

It's also available as an in-person workshop [1], and I believe corporate trainings are a significant part of the Ardan Labs business model. They also do shorter versions of their workshops at Go conferences.

They're huge contributors to the Go community via their conference workshops, and I can't thank them enough for the knowledge that they've gathered, refined, and shared all these years. (I help organise GopherCon Singapore.)

[1] https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining

Timucin• 7 years ago

I watched Ultimate Go on Safari Books a while ago and recently got back to it to revise my knowledge.

It will fill all the gaps and answer all the questions one can have, especially after the Tour of Go or reading a book which only scratches the surface.

I can't express enough how amazing that course and how useful what Hoanh did.

Once you finish, I'd also suggest to take a look to the Ardan Lab's github account since there are tons of material for Go.

Bill's presentation also made me giggle a lot -which is a rare thing for tutorials- since he says things like

  If I see an interface and it doesn't smell right, 
  and I'll be asking the developer, why are you 
  using an interface here? Now if the developer 
  gives me any one of these two answers, we're 
  gonna go take a walk.

as if this is a movie and he's going to take the developer to the woods to execute because the developer done wrong Bill :)

sonfat505• 7 years ago

Thanks so much for putting this together!

hoanhan1017• 7 years ago

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I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code

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