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Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers

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

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Post by cortesoft »

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?

Are you asking how relevant the protocol was in the day to day back when it was popular? Or now?

Obviously, not many people still use the protocol, it has been almost entirely replaced by http. However, I used it a ton back in the early 90s. It was way more useful than the early web.

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

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Post by ArmandGrillet »

Great website, the exercises look interesting and the focus on topics makes things clear.

I was looking for something like this but for C++ a few months ago and was quite disappointed by what I found. If someone here has some links to share, that would be great!

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

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Post by joncalhoun »

bhrgunatha wrote: post #54
joncalhoun wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is probably an extension of some sort. I have heard this can happen with Privacy Badger, but I'm sure other extensions can cause the issue. I think it is a fairly common issue with embedded Vimeo videos, but I haven't had a chance to look at alternative options/settings and hosting videos myself comes with a whole other set of issues. Just FYI I am not personally doing a bunch of tracking here. I don't even think…

I turned off NoScript, and uBlock doesn't show any blocked requests (the only privacy add-ons I have.) Still no video. The player loads and shows an image, the video bar shows background video loading progress and even clicking to certain parts of the video shows different image clips. Just no video. So I've just given up.

That sucks. Email me? jon@calhoun.io

I'll happily work with you to figure out the issue, even if it means giving you a link to download some videos in the meantime.

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

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Post by gizzlon »

decker wrote: post #59

Write 20 different variants of mapping elements in a slice from one type to another. This will give you a fairly reasonable approximation of golang development.

really? Think I've done that once or twice in the last 2 years... YMMV

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

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Post by zapperdapper »

joncalhoun wrote: post #64
zapperdapper wrote: post #63

Impressive artwork - did you outsource that Jon?

Yes. There's a link in the site footer to the artist, Marcus, though I did animate them myself.

Oh thanks - I missed that link at the bottom. The tutorials look interesting too!

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

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Post by distrill »

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.

Why limit the complexity/interestingness of everything to always fit into a single hour? These seem to be aimed at people who have finished introductory material and are potentially looking for (semi-)/nontrivial material. If you're married to the idea of ~1hr segments, you can always split them into parts of a series.

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Post by trqx »

badsectoracula wrote: post #52
huntie wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What gopher client is that? It looks really nice but searching for "Little Gopher Client" didn't bring up anything.

Mine :-), you can find it here: http://runtimeterror.com/tools/gopher/

Hi,

Care to join #gopherproject @freenode? I think I found a small display bug.

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