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Introducing Go: Build Reliable, Scalable Programs
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Perfect for beginners familiar with programming basics, this hands-on guide provides an easy introduction to Go, the general-purpose programming language from Google. Author Caleb Doxsey covers the language’s core features with step-by-step instructions and exercises in each chapter to help you practice what you learn.
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Paperback, 124 pages
Published
February 1st 2016
by O'Reilly Media
(first published January 25th 2016)
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The book brings a very introductory view of the Go programming language. The problem is that it seems to focus on Go as the first programming language, since it goes from the very first beginning explaining what is a variable a function etc.
This makes the book a little boring if you already know another programming language. It also makes the author to spend too much time with the basics and not much with Go particular features that makes the language stand, which are goroutines and channel. Tho ...more
This makes the book a little boring if you already know another programming language. It also makes the author to spend too much time with the basics and not much with Go particular features that makes the language stand, which are goroutines and channel. Tho ...more
The book is a good starting point for those who want to learn Go; you will learn the basics of the language with some examples. Although there are some exercises at the end of each chapter to put your knowledge into testing, it's better to do more yourself because the exercises don't cover everything.
The title about "Build Scalable Programs" doesn't fit here. The purpose is about general programming using a specific language and the book examples are simple ones. It doesn't prepare you to write ...more
The title about "Build Scalable Programs" doesn't fit here. The purpose is about general programming using a specific language and the book examples are simple ones. It doesn't prepare you to write ...more
A good introductory book for Go, which can be quickly consumed to get an idea about the language and its concepts.
I wouldn't suggest this book if you have no previous programming experience, it's more like an introduction book for people coming to GoLang from any other programming language.
For an introductory book, some chapters such as HTTP, TCP and PRC were completely unnecessary. These chapters were also quite weak, and the author simply skipped them with snippets with no explanation.
I wouldn't suggest this book if you have no previous programming experience, it's more like an introduction book for people coming to GoLang from any other programming language.
For an introductory book, some chapters such as HTTP, TCP and PRC were completely unnecessary. These chapters were also quite weak, and the author simply skipped them with snippets with no explanation.
If you're an experienced programmer in other languages, this book is NOT a good resource to start. The approach is for beginners, as it even explains what a variable is for example. If this is the case, the book is a good introduction to the craft (maybe not the first I would read though).
In case you are an experienced programmer and want to get to know Go and its differences with other languages, I recommend a different book, like Go in Action from Manning.
In case you are an experienced programmer and want to get to know Go and its differences with other languages, I recommend a different book, like Go in Action from Manning.
As an introductory book, this one is ok. I quite like the fact of being able go read a technical book in an afternoon, but that comes with obvious compromises. Don't expect to finish the book and start coding by yourself. The topics are not connected and you will need extra references to build anything real with the language.
Great reference for beginner, as the title stated. Only cover basic understanding to Go language. Straight forward and there are questions by the end of every section, so we can test our understanding by ourself. Recommended, for new comer.
A nearly minimalist introduction to Go, in print format. Some of the syntactic sugar feels glossed over, so a close reading is still require for readers previously using dynamically types languages with garbage collection.
As an introducing book it was quite ok. As with this book and recent programming books, they talk a lot about simple things and in the end when are more harder things only half of the page or less is used to make things clear.
Good one as an introduction to the language. Don't try to expect much from this book. There is only basic explanation of the main concepts which can be an excellent starting point in learning Go.
Very introductory, but worth a quick check of fundamentals.
Well.. Usual Golang book
too simple.
It's good to refresh your information about Go, but not that good for beginners because it needs more details and more aspects to cover
For the beginner, this is a good introduction to the language. For those with moderate programming experience, it should take an afternoon to work through.
Another edition of 'An Introduction to Programming in Go'
Not bad for an introducing book.
This is the worst computing book I have read in a long time. Making a book an "intro for beginners" should not become a pretext for loosely and incompletely touching, in what appears like a semi random fashion, on the concepts of the language. Targeting it for beginners relieve the author of any moral obligation to make connections with other similar concepts from other languages, and calling it an intro gives him a convenient way to get away with a less that thorough review of these concepts. A
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It's ok for a first contact with the language, but it lacks some rigorousness and structure. Being a software engineer myself, I felt that many details are left out and I was missing important bits while going through the chapters. If it's intended for beginners that don't necessarily have previous programming experience, I think it's not basic enough, those kind of readers would get lost very easily. It seems as if the book tries to get to both beginners and programmers, but it fails at being g
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This is a great introduction to the language. It describes very clearly the basic concepts of the language and gives the reader a really good place to start as well as a good idea of how it may relate or differ from languages they have already used.
First half does an okay job introducing things, but when it dives into packages and what not it's random and a bit confusing. Spends about the same amount of time on everything, which is thorough for simple topics and basically skimming the surface for complex topics.
Very short and incomplete, but clear and well-written
IMHO, waste of time, I think you would be much better just downloading go and running go tool tour.
Was just OK. Not very informative and lacks examples on many areas, but that's the case with "Introductory books". Definitely a good choice!
Дуже погано. Прості речі розжовуються, а складні майже не пояснюються.
Good introduction for someone who has programmed in other languages but hasn't worked with Go previously.
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