[GTALUG] Learning Go

[David Collier-Brown]

I found the regular go book,/The Go Programming Language/ by Donovan and 
Brian Kertnighan was reminiscent of the C book, and easy to work from.

For how to learn, I might look and see if there is a good O'Reilly talk 
series. I see a bunch listed.

--dave

On 10/13/24 23:28, William Park via talk wrote:
> Dear Go experts,
>
> I finally decided to dive into Go.  Searching around "go.dev", I can't 
> seem to find proper introduction, suitable for C programmer.  Can 
> someone point me to where it might be buried?
>
> I want the usual introduction, starting with
>     - data types, variables, data structures
>     - syntax (Go seems to use more symbols than C)
>     - if-then, loops, functions, etc.
>
> Eg. I started with
>
>     func main() {
>         code, text := fmt.Print ("Print:", "hello", "world\n")
>         code, text := fmt.Printf ("Printf: %s %s\n", "hello", "world")
>         code, text := fmt.Println ("Println:", "hello", "world")
>     }
>
> and got errors.  I managed to figure it out, by trial and error. Not 
> very efficient learning...
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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
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