Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

#1

Post by aforarnold » Sat, May 30, 2015, 10:41 AM UTC

I am trying to learn golang for almost one year. Went through the docs, completed https://tour.golang.org/ and watched few talks. Now I want to get my Go knowledge in real working code via weekend project. No specific preference, just to let you know I am fluent in Python and working as a backend developer in day job.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

#2

Post by mattkrea » Sat, May 30, 2015, 11:33 AM UTC

Disclaimer: These sites have never worked for me.

Here are a couple places to look: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/2a9ygh/10...

I find that a random idea from a stranger doesn't always give me enough inspiration to move forward or follow through. Instead, try to think about something that you want to solve for yourself. Maybe a CLI tool that could help you out or something similar.

Re: Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

#3

Post by snehesht » Sat, May 30, 2015, 11:57 AM UTC

Simple, try to port your favorite python library to go.Read in python and Write in go

Re: Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

#4

Post by motyar » Sat, May 30, 2015, 12:47 PM UTC

Write REST API for mySQL database.

Re: Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

#5

Post by asterfield » Sat, May 30, 2015, 12:56 PM UTC

I found that writing an SQL query generation framework in PHP was fun. Try the same for Go? An HTTP proxy is also quite easy to do in Go, and again quite fun.

Re: Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

#6

Post by crlane » Sat, May 30, 2015, 1:00 PM UTC

Check out the golang challenge problems. http://golang-challenge.com/

Re: Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

#7

Post by falcolas » Sat, May 30, 2015, 1:33 PM UTC

https://github.com/kanaka/mal

This is more than a weekend's worth of work, but the work is incremental, so you will see benefits from point 0. This was a lot of fun for me, and it helped shine light on some of the darker corners of Go.

I'm still working on a version of it myself, using it to experiment with different coding styles, interfaces, and libraries. A lot of fun.

Re: Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

#8

Post by papaf » Sat, May 30, 2015, 1:49 PM UTC

Nearly all webmail UIs are written using PHP. Given that 78% of PHP installs include at least one vulnerability [1] it would be good to have a webmail UI written in some other language.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/31/want_to_have_your_se...

Edit: This is not a dig at PHP, I would not want to install it on one of my servers because I do not know what I am doing.

Re: Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

#9

Post by papaf » Sat, May 30, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #7

https://github.com/kanaka/mal This is more than a weekend's worth of work, but the work is incremental, so you will see benefits from point 0. This was a lot of fun for me, and it helped shine light on some of the darker corners of Go. I'm still working on a version of it myself, using it to experiment with different coding styles, interfaces, and libraries. A lot of fun.

This is more than a weekend's worth of work

I usually think of weekend projects as something done over many weekends - I can't manage much in a single weekend.

Re: Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

#10

Post by pramodliv1 » Sat, May 30, 2015, 3:37 PM UTC

You can implement your favourite data structures in Go, and see if you can make them faster by using the concurrency primitives in Go.