Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by maximilienandi » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 2:56 PM UTC

Show HN: I wrote a book about Go
practical-go-lessons.com

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by maximilienandi » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 2:56 PM UTC

Hello all,

After 2.5 years of writing, countless weekends and evenings, I released a book about the Go programming language.

The book is available for free on the website because I wanted to give something back to the developer's community :)

It is composed of 700+ pages, 41 chapters, and approximately 405 drawings/screenshots.

I tried to cover all the important topics that a new Go programmer should know.

At the end of each chapter, you can find a small Q/A and a bullet point list of key notions.

I would love to hear your feedback about it!

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by damip » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 3:06 PM UTC

Wow thank you for your work and providing it for free. Is there a way to submit correction PRs ? maybe a github ?

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by maximilienandi » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 3:07 PM UTC

damip wrote: post #3

Wow thank you for your work and providing it for free. Is there a way to submit correction PRs ? maybe a github ?

I'm currently working on it :)

For the moment you can post your corrections on that URL : https://www.practical-go-lessons.com/feedback

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by codegeek » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 4:33 PM UTC

maximilienandi wrote: post #2

Hello all, After 2.5 years of writing, countless weekends and evenings, I released a book about the Go programming language. The book is available for free on the website because I wanted to give something back to the developer's community :) It is composed of 700+ pages, 41 chapters, and approximately 405 drawings/screenshots. I tried to cover all the important topics that a new Go programmer should know. At the end…

I love it. Hats off to you for your hard work on this. Who builds your illustrations/graphics ? Looks cool.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by maximilienandi » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 4:40 PM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #5

maximilienandi wrote: post #2

Hello all, After 2.5 years of writing, countless weekends and evenings, I released a book about the Go programming language. The book is available for free on the website because I wanted to give something back to the developer's community :) It is composed of 700+ pages, 41 chapters, and approximately 405 drawings/screenshots. I tried to cover all the important topics that a new Go programmer should know. At the end…

I love it. Hats off to you for your hard work on this. Who builds your illustrations/graphics ? Looks cool.

My spouse :)

Thank you for your feedback !

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by ok_coo » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 4:51 PM UTC

Thank you for this! We just started using Go for all of our new and/or updated backend stuff and I love it.

I'll definitely be checking this out. :)

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by maximilienandi » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 4:56 PM UTC

ok_coo wrote: post #7

Thank you for this! We just started using Go for all of our new and/or updated backend stuff and I love it. I'll definitely be checking this out. :)

Thanks I appreciate :)

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by lovetocode » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 4:57 PM UTC

I love this -- thank you!

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by wmu » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 5:00 PM UTC

Looks great! Seems there were some issues in conversion into HTML chapter titles. For example https://www.practical-go-lessons.com/chap-31-logging#log.fat...