"Learning Go" Book

http://www.miek.nl/projects/learninggo/

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libria2• 14 years ago

The latest version should be at the bottom of this list: http://www.miek.nl/files/go/

TwistedWeasel2• 14 years ago

I was expecting a book on learning Go, the game. I was disappointed.

I hate it when people name new things with a name that obviously conflicts with something else that's likely to be known and discussed in the same community.

tzs• 14 years ago

Good book for learning Go, the game: http://www.amazon.com/Go-Beginners-Kaoru-Iwamoto/dp/03947333...

insertnickname• 14 years ago

I hate when people name things common names/words like "Go". "Dart" is also bad.

huckfinnaafb• 14 years ago

Then Java, Chrome, Ruby, Rails, Bash, Curl, Python, Apache, Lynx, Scheme, Unity and dozens of other project names must infuriate you :).

nextparadigms• 14 years ago

Or Apple.

libria2• 14 years ago

I get a chuckle out of Google's final status regarding the naming conflict with Francis McCabe's Go!: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9

shasta• 14 years ago

Summary: Go!, $!?@ yourself.

Jun8• 14 years ago

I liked An Introduction to Go (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/an-introduction-to-go-james-...) and The Second Book of Go (http://www.amazon.com/Second-Book-Beginner-Elementary-Books/...)

melling• 14 years ago

I think someone said this the last time someone posted something about the Go language. Considering that we talk about the Go language here a lot more than the game, it shouldn't be a surprise.

I'm gonna tag this message so I can point it out the next time someone expresses their disappointment. Not so easy to search for the word go. :-)

TAGS: golang, disappointment, go, melling

TwistedWeasel2• 14 years ago

My favorite book for learning Go (the game)...

http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Play-Go-Masters-Ultimate/dp/1453...

jfox85• 14 years ago

If anyone is interested in Go (Golang) we're hiring Go developers at Torbit. http://torbit.com/jobs

Jabbles2• 14 years ago

On first glance this looks excellent, but I have to question producing a book on a language so steeped in unicode with a markup language that makes it so unwieldy.

eg. $\Phi{}$ = Φ

anghyflawn3• 14 years ago

To be fair, $\Phi$ is actually not the same as Φ (U+03A6). Not to mention all the other advantages of LaTeX, which I am not going to rehash.

Jabbles2• 14 years ago

Don't we have successors such as XeTeX which are capable of handling unicode?

How do you type Φ in LaTeX?

tikhonj2• 14 years ago

I don't know--entering \Phi isn't that bad. You don't need the {} bit, which would be annoying to type. With a clever editor (Emacs) you can even automatically complete it most of the time, so it isn't a real issue.

It's also certainly easier than learning a new keyboard layout (KDE actually offers a keyboard for APL, for example) as long as you're not going to be using too many special characters.

a5x2h9k41l• 14 years ago

What is the canonical way to convert this to ASCII? Can it be done with nroff? Tried l2a and hevea. No luck.

andreasvc• 14 years ago

I would use pdftotext on the pdf file. It's not perfect, but neither is stripping commands from the .tex source (macros will not be evaluated).

pmarin• 14 years ago

I think the best way can be to convert the source to html using LaTeX2HTML and then convert the html files to txt using

    cat foo.html | w3m -dump -T text/html > foo.txt

(w3m a text based web browser)

drivebyacct2• 14 years ago

This is a great resource, especially for being free and the source being available, but in case miek is reading... what is with the left margin on even numbered pages?

moistgorilla• 14 years ago

I'm tempted to learn Go just because it's a new language and I think it would be awesome to be part of a budding community.

georgemcbay• 14 years ago

I highly recommend Go. It is the most fun I've had learning a new language since Java.

(I don't enjoy Java programming nearly as much these days as I think the language has mostly languished and I'm not too fond of the FactoryOfFactoryFactories culture that has grown around it).

Even if you don't end up using Go a lot, it will make you question a lot of the complexity that is taken for granted in other languages you use and probably also make your code better in other languages (not in the sense that you will do things exactly the way you do them in Go, that would be foolish to attempt, but in the way you may begin to approach things with a fresh set of eyes in terms of how much flexibility you can maintain while also starting from a small set of simple concepts).

magnusgraviti• 14 years ago

I am reading this book now and will send a commit with typo fixes when finish.

Even after Effective Go and gotour I found a lot of useful information in this book. Thanks the author for his work! :)

batista2• 14 years ago

>I am reading this book now and will send a commit with typo fixes when finish.

Oh, the irony.

StavrosK• 14 years ago

Could you please put this up on Leanpub (http://www.leanpub.com)? It will take care of the compiling for you, and I'd like to pay a bit for it.

Also, leanpub is awesome (I'm not affiliated with them, but I'm a very happy user).

saintfiends• 14 years ago

Looks good and up to date. Just the right amount of pages for a programming language book, IMO it shouldn't exceed 200 pages. Thank you.

"Learning Go" Book

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