learn-go-with-tests

Background | My Approach | Editor Setup | Useful Learning Material | License

Background

This repo contains the code I created as I worked through @quii's Learn Go with Tests book. As a Golang Newbie I highly recommend the book as it struck a nice balance between learning a new language and using it in anger.

My Approach

For Go Fundamentals, I worked through each section writing my own version of the code samples and taking the time to understand anything I wasn't sure of. I then cross-checked my version of the code against the most recent version contained in the original repo.

For Build an Application, I read each section top-to-bottom taking the time to completely understand each of the code samples. I then based my own version of that section's code on the most recent version contained in the original repo.

In both cases, I allowed myself to dive down into rabbitholes as I referred to external documentation, presentations, books and the like. This meant it took me quite a while to work through the book, but this was fine since I was more concerned with learning than shipping this repo quickly.

Editor Setup

I used the Go Extension for Visual Studio Code.

Useful Learning Material

• A Tour of Go
• Go by Example
• Golang Weekly
• Golang tutorial series
• Gophers on Slack
• The Little Go Book

Plus a whole bunch of code reading from repos on GitHub.

License

MIT