How to Raise a Gopher in Record Time

1. How to Raise a Gopher in Record Time Tiffany Jernigan @tiffanyfayj
2. @tiffanyfayj Raising a Gopher • Gophers eat more than half their body weight in food a day • They particularly like plants/vegetables • They love digging holes
3. @tiffanyfayj Who Am I? • Georgia Tech - Electrical Engineering • Intel - Product Dev Engineer, Software Engineer • Docker - Software Engineer Consultant • Amazon - Developer Advocate • I am learning French (J’apprends le français)
4. @tiffanyfayj Who Will This Help? • You've heard about Go • You're interested in learning the language • You want to start on the right foot • You’re interested in learning more • You want to help someone else learn
5. @tiffanyfayj Why Learn Go? • Not niche anymore! • Adapted for concurrent I/O • Readable • Fast • Compiles into single binaries • Great for ◦ Distributed systems ◦ Microservices Can’t use this excuse as easily :P
6. @tiffanyfayj Outline • Where to Begin? • More Websites • Tools • Training • Coding Practice • Communities • Conferences
7. Where to Begin? Where to Begin?
8. @tiffanyfayj Where to Begin? • Tour of Go ◦ https://tour.golang.org ◦ Basics to advanced topics (e.g. concurrency) ◦ Examples ◦ Exercises ◦ Available in many languages ◦ Available offline
9. @tiffanyfayj Where to Begin? • Godocs ◦ https://golang.org/pkg ◦ What are they? http://blog.golang.org/godoc-documenting-go-c ode ◦ Offline godoc -http=:6060
10. @tiffanyfayj Where to Begin? • Source code ◦ https://golang.org/src ◦ https://github.com/golang/go
11. More Websites More Websites
12. @tiffanyfayj Code Examples • Go by Example ◦ https://gobyexample.com/ ◦ Has code as well as explanations and output ◦ Shows more general concepts
14. @tiffanyfayj Code Examples • Socket Loop ◦ https://www.socketloop.com/ ◦ Has code comments and output ◦ Not as verbose as Go by Example ◦ Generally longer code blocks
16. @tiffanyfayj Blogs • Official Golang blog ◦ https://blog.golang.org/ ◦ Written by Googlers who work on Go ◦ Detailed descriptions of every big release
17. @tiffanyfayj Blogs • Dave Cheney’s blog ◦ http://dave.cheney.net/ ◦ Frequent and very informative posts ◦ My go to for learning about channels ▪ http://dave.cheney.net/tag/channels ◦ http://dave.cheney.net/resources-for-new-go-p rogrammers
19. @tiffanyfayj Blogs • Bill Kennedy’s blog ◦ https://www.goinggo.net/
21. @tiffanyfayj Blogs • Gopher Academy ◦ https://blog.gopheracademy.com/ ◦ Written by several people
22. Training Training
23. @tiffanyfayj Online Training • Todd McLeod ◦ https://www.youtube.com/user/toddmcleod ◦ https://github.com/GoesToEleven/GolangTrain ing • Pluralsight ◦ Nigel Poulton https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/go- fundamentals
24. @tiffanyfayj Workshops • Ultimate Go by Ardan Labs/Bill Kennedy ◦ https://www.ardanlabs.com/ultimate-go ◦ https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining ◦ Basics through more advanced concepts ◦ Examples and exercises ◦ On site assistance
25. @tiffanyfayj Books • The Go Programming Language by Alan A.A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan ◦ http://www.gopl.io/ • Go in Action by Bill Kennedy, Brian Ketelsen, and Erik St. Martin ◦ https://www.manning.com/books/go-in-action ◦ Code samples https://github.com/goinaction/code
26. Tools Tools
27. @tiffanyfayj Editors • Go Playground https://play.golang.org/ • Vscode (what I use--with vscode-go) https://code.visualstudio.com/ ◦ Can have Delve debugger • Sublime (with GoSublime) https://www.sublimetext.com/ • Vim (with vim-go) http://www.vim.org/ • And there are many more
28. @tiffanyfayj Tools • Gofmt ◦ https://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/ ◦ Formats your code to the Go standard format ◦ I have format on save set
29. @tiffanyfayj Tools • Goimports ◦ https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goim ports ◦ Automatically will add packages you’ve used to the imports when you save
30. @tiffanyfayj Tools • Autocomplete ◦ https://github.com/nsf/gocode ◦ Start typing and it will show options ◦ Very helpful for learning
31. @tiffanyfayj Tools • Godef ◦ https://github.com/rogpeppe/godef ◦ Jumps to where the code you’re looking at is defined
32. Coding Practice Coding Practice
33. @tiffanyfayj Coding Challenges • These aren’t Go specific, but you have the option of using Go ◦ https://www.hackerrank.com/ ◦ https://www.codeeval.com/ • The monthly Go Challenges ◦ http://golang-challenge.org
34. @tiffanyfayj Projects • Recreating previous projects you’ve done • Finding a project to do ◦ Golang Github wiki ▪ https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Projects
35. @tiffanyfayj Testing ↔ Features • Testing testing testing! • Unit tests (require less context) • Integration tests (requires broader understanding of the project) • Features (once you get the big picture) • Repeat
36. Communities Communities
37. @tiffanyfayj Communities • Coworkers/mentors • Communities at work • Gopher Slack ◦ http://bit.ly/1zUTGKh • Go-nuts Google Group ◦ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gola ng-nuts
38. @tiffanyfayj Meetups/Organizations • Local Go Meetups ◦ http://http://www.meetup.com/ ◦ For everyone • GoBridge ◦ http://golangbridge.org/ ◦ For underrepresented communities • Women Who Go ◦ http://www.womenwhogo.org/ ◦ For people identifying as women
39. Conferences Conferences
40. @tiffanyfayj Conferences • The large scale version of meetups ◦ More talks ◦ More people • Many are Go-specific https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Conferences
41. @tiffanyfayj Conferences • GopherCon (Denver, Colorado) ◦ https://www.gophercon.com/ ◦ Videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx9QVEA pa5BKLw9r8cnOFEA/playlists ◦ Slides https://github.com/gophercon/
42. @tiffanyfayj Conferences • GopherCon India ◦ http://www.gophercon.in/ • GopherCon Dubai ◦ http://www.gophercon.ae/ • GopherCon Brazil ◦ https://2016.gopherconbr.org/en/ • GopherCon Singapore ◦ https://2017.gophercon.sg/ ◦
43. @tiffanyfayj Conferences • GolangUK ◦ http://golanguk.com/ • dotGo (France) ◦ http://www.dotgo.eu/ ◦ https://www.youtube.com/user/dotconference s/playlists • GoLab (Italy) ◦ golab.io
44. @tiffanyfayj Conferences • GothamGo (New York) ◦ http://gothamgo.com/ • GopherChina ◦ http://gopherchina.org/ • And there are others too!
45. @tiffanyfayj Image Credits • http://www.shauntmax30.com/group/gopher/ • Gopher on horse: ◦ GopherAcademy, LLC • All Gopher images are from or based on (created by various designers): ◦ Go mascot designed by Renée French and copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 • XKCD
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