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Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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Post by joncalhoun »

merlincorey wrote: post #22
joncalhoun wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I'll have to go create an icon for this. So many custom icon formats :\ Edit: I believe I have an icon set here now. I might need to tweak it but it should work in the meantime.

I recently got turned onto RealFaviconGenerator.net after researching the various icon formats I might need to support and finding a nice in-depth stack overflow answer [1] from the author of that website. I would be surprised if it did NOT support pinned images. [0] https://realfavicongenerator.net/ [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4014823/does-a-favicon-h...

This is indeed the site I used to fix the issue :)

Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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Post by joncalhoun »

rhizome wrote: post #20
joncalhoun wrote: post #3

I want to have 20+ exercises by the time the course is complete. There are about 13 planned as of now, so if you have suggestions or topics that you think would make good Go programming exercises I'd love to hear them =D EDIT: And in other news, a few people have reported the welcome email going to their spam so if it happens to you please let me know and I'll continue looking into why it is happening.

Aside from that, since you're aiming at beginners I would connect "gopher" to the Go language sooner than three screens down the page.

Noted. Thanks for the feedback :)

Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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Post by joncalhoun »

codemac wrote: post #19
joncalhoun wrote: post #3

I want to have 20+ exercises by the time the course is complete. There are about 13 planned as of now, so if you have suggestions or topics that you think would make good Go programming exercises I'd love to hear them =D EDIT: And in other news, a few people have reported the welcome email going to their spam so if it happens to you please let me know and I'll continue looking into why it is happening.

Something that is kind of unique to Go is it's crypto libraries. Using the crypto libraries in some useful way would be interesting. A cool one might be using the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh to ssh around, and send shell commands (i.e. building your own automation framework based on ssh keys)

I like the idea of using a crypto lib, but it will probably take some thought and experimentation to figure out what will fit into roughly a ~1hr exercise. That is always the hard part - not picking something too large.

Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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Post by joncalhoun »

shabinesh wrote: post #12
joncalhoun wrote: post #3

I want to have 20+ exercises by the time the course is complete. There are about 13 planned as of now, so if you have suggestions or topics that you think would make good Go programming exercises I'd love to hear them =D EDIT: And in other news, a few people have reported the welcome email going to their spam so if it happens to you please let me know and I'll continue looking into why it is happening.

Really Nice step, I created a small course to create a flappy bird game step-by-step for my co-workers which I presented at Golab conference in Italy. This was also made into "Just for Func" series by Francesc. It was intended to be really simple for beginners, and I could help it make it better if you decide to use it :) https://github.com/shabinesh/flappy

I recall seeing at least one video in this series :)

I love the idea and your work here, but I'm a little skeptical of doing something so similar since it won't add a ton of value with Francesc's videos already out there.

Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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Post by badsectoracula »

hactually wrote: post #21
msla wrote: post #2

Go programming language, not the Gopher Internet protocol. I wonder if there's a Gopher server written in Go yet...

I see a lot of these dismissive corrections when talking about Go and Gophers and just wondered how relevant the original gopher protocol was in your day to day? Like, when did you last request data using gopher?

I don't know about msla, but i have my Gopher client right next to my Web browser[1] (yes the workspace is called Web, but they are both in the sort of same category of applications so i have them together :-P) and i use it quite often.

I mainly read "phlogs" though, but there is generally a lot of stuff to read when bored.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/Ck1UDhg.png

Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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Post by ultrasounder »

Signed up for the coding excercises!Awesome site!What path would you recommend to someone who is coming from a bit of Python background. I see a lot of blurb about how Golang is the perfect fit for low latency web applications. Think “data intensive applications”. Also how good is the Golang tool chain for Raspberry pi and such like? Thanks

Re: Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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Post by Vendan »

joncalhoun wrote: post #34
codemac wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something that is kind of unique to Go is it's crypto libraries. Using the crypto libraries in some useful way would be interesting. A cool one might be using the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh to ssh around, and send shell commands (i.e. building your own automation framework based on ssh keys)

I like the idea of using a crypto lib, but it will probably take some thought and experimentation to figure out what will fit into roughly a ~1hr exercise. That is always the hard part - not picking something too large.

Go's crypto libs are pretty well made, and the ssh libs are less crypto and more "here's an interface similar to os/exec that lets you run commands on a remote system"
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