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Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by maximilienandi » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

adeptima wrote: post #16

Hi maximilienandi, great work! Easy to read for non-native! Always nice to see more alternative to the Blue Book too ;) When I open Golang books or any kind of tutorials, I usually jump into Concurrency sections to see its depth and quality ... If ever start thinking of selling v2 of your book, please go through Katherine Cox-Buday book "Concurrency in Go" content. I like Katherine but your writing style is much much…

Hi adeptima, thank you for your feedback!

I am really happy that you like the writing style.

I will order the book written by Katherine.

Concurrency is a really difficult topic; maybe I will add more content about it later. Real-world use-cases are hard to find also.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by tomca32 » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 6:11 PM UTC

This looks great! I absolutely love that it assumes no knowledge of anything, including how the computer works. This is how all educational material should be written.

I think that most knowledge gaps we all have are caused by a teacher/book making assumptions about what we already know.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by dave_sid » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 6:11 PM UTC

Moby wrote a song about it in the 90s

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by dave_sid » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 6:12 PM UTC

dave_sid wrote: post #23

Moby wrote a song about it in the 90s

https://youtu.be/N_Qwo8sT9U0

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by maximilienandi » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

tomca32 wrote: post #22

This looks great! I absolutely love that it assumes no knowledge of anything, including how the computer works. This is how all educational material should be written. I think that most knowledge gaps we all have are caused by a teacher/book making assumptions about what we already know.

Hi tomca32,

Thank you for the feedback. I tried to make it accessible to new programmers. I hope it will be used by people how wants to start their programmer's journey.

Being a self-taught programmer, I always suffered from not knowing some very basic notions. I learned a lot in the process of writing those chapters.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by maximilienandi » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

binaryorganic wrote: post #20

Always assume Go references are about the board game, always disappointed. Congrats on the book!

Thank you very much !

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

Excellent!

I am not a Go programmer, so I am not your target audience, but I have written a book, so I understand the work.

Thanks so much!

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by insdel » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 6:27 PM UTC

Looks very good! Thanks for providing it free.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by maximilienandi » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 6:28 PM UTC

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #27

Excellent! I am not a Go programmer, so I am not your target audience, but I have written a book, so I understand the work. Thanks so much!

Thank you ChrisMarshallNY, for your kind message. I hope you will start using Go in the future!

Re: Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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Post by dctoedt » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 6:29 PM UTC

Looks great.

How'd you build the Web site — a package of some sort, or did you roll your own CSS? I've been working on a law-related book that I plan to post; I like the look of your site.

(I suppose it's too much to hope for that you created this with Emacs and org-mode — which is what I'm writing my book in — together with a nifty CSS package ....)