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How to Raise a Gopher in Record Time

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2. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 How to Raise a Gopher in Record Time Tiffany Jernigan @tiffanyfayj
3. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Who Am I? • - Software Engineer* • Georgia Tech - Electrical Engineering • Docker PDX Meetup - Co-organizer • I like gymnastics, reading mysteries, drawing, spending time with family and friends, sour gummies... • I am learning French (J’apprends le français) *My thoughts don’t reflect those of Intel
4. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Who Are You? • 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. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Why Learn Go? • 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. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Outline • Where to Begin? • More Websites • Tools • Training • Coding Practice • Communities • Conferences
7. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Where to Begin?
8. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Where to Begin? • Tour of Go • https://tour.golang.org • Available in many languages • Available offline • Basics through concurrency • Examples • Exercises
9. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Where to Begin? • Godocs • https://golang.org/pkg • What are they? http://blog.golang. org/godoc-documenting-go-code • Offline godoc -http=:6060
10. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Where to Begin? • Source code • https://golang.org/src • https://github.com/golang/go
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12. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Code Examples • Go by Example • https://gobyexample.com/ • Has code as well as explanations and output • Shows more general concepts
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15. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Code Examples • Socket Loop • https://www.socketloop.com/ • Has code comments and output • Not as verbose as Go by Example • Generally longer code blocks
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17. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Blogs • Official Golang blog • https://blog.golang.org/ • Written by Googlers who work on Go • Detailed descriptions of every big release
18. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 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-programmers
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20. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Blogs • Bill Kennedy’s blog • https://www.goinggo.net/
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22. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Blogs • Gopher Academy • https://blog.gopheracademy.com/ • Written by several people
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24. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Online Training • Todd McLeod • https://www.youtube. com/user/toddmcleod • https://github. com/GoesToEleven/GolangTraining • Pluralsight • Nigel Poulton https://app.pluralsight. com/library/courses/go-fundamentals
25. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 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
26. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 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
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29. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 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
30. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Tools • Gofmt • https://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/ • Formats your code to the Go standard format • I have format on save set
31. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Tools • Autocomplete • https://github.com/nsf/gocode • Start typing and it will show options • Very helpful for learning
32. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Tools • Godef • https://github.com/rogpeppe/godef • Jumps to where the code you’re looking at is defined
33. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Tools • Goimports • https://godoc.org/golang. org/x/tools/cmd/goimports • Automatically will add packages you’ve used to the imports when you save
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35. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 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. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Projects • Recreating previous projects you’ve done • Finding a project to do • Golang Github wiki • https://github. com/golang/go/wiki/Projects
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38. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Coding Challenges • These aren’t Go specific, but you have the option of using Go • https://www.hackerrank.com/ • https://www.codeeval.com/ • Starting up again soon are the monthly Go Challenges • http://golang-challenge.org
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40. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Communities • Coworkers/mentors • Communities at work • Gopher Slack • http://bit.ly/1zUTGKh • Go-nuts Google Group • https://groups.google.com/forum/#! forum/golang-nuts
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43. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Meetups/Organizations • Local Go Meetups (e.g. PDXGo) • 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
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45. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Conferences • The large scale version of meetups • More talks • More people • Many are Go-specific https://github. com/golang/go/wiki/Conferences
46. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Conferences • GopherCon • https://www.gophercon.com/ • Videos https://www.youtube. com/channel/UCx9QVEApa5BKLw9r8c nOFEA/playlists • Slides https://github.com/gophercon/
47. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Conferences • GopherCon India • http://www.gophercon.in/ • GopherCon Dubai • http://www.gophercon.ae/ • GopherCon China
48. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Conferences • GolangUK • http://golanguk.com/ • dotGo • http://www.dotgo.eu/ • https://www.youtube. com/user/dotconferences/playlists
49. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Conferences • GothamGo • http://gothamgo.com/ • And there are others too!
50. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Image Credits • Gopher on horse: • GopherAcademy, LLC • All Gopher images are from or based on: • Go mascot designed by Renée French and copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 • XKCD
51. LinuxFest Northwest 2016 Thanks! @tiffanyfayj
52. Thank you! Evaluate this session Session videos will be posted to the LinuxFest Northwest YouTube channel. http://lfnw.org/node/4017