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Sorry, forgot to give credit to @dolanor for pointing me to that site!

#LearningGo

@RadioAzureus

That's a really good one. They just don't have a complete #Golang course (yet).

#LearningGo

Hey #LearningGo peeps, I found a great new (free) course online for Go. I'm checking it out now:

https://exercism.org/tracks/go

I was going to do the #Coursera course, but their TOS had a binding arbitration clause. THE GALL! :BlobFoxAngry:

@dolanor

Thank you so much!! I will check both of those out!

#LearningGo

@gareth

Go by example looks really good. Thanks for that!!

#LearningGo

Well, I just ran headfirst into another wretched #BindingArbitration agreement.

I created a #Coursera account to take a #Go programming course, and of course their bloody TOS has a #BAA.

Jerks. :(

I guess I'm back to just reading a book, as the online courses are either too brief, don't have much in the way of exercises, are expensive, or are hiding behind stupid BAAs.

#Golang #LearnGo #LearningGo #VeryFrustrating

Just in case anyone's curious, my go shebang handler, "gorun" is here: https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/src/branch/main/gorun

#Go #GoLang #LearningGo

@joel

Incorrect. Some things work beautifully, and are fully resplendent in their functional derpiness.

Take, for example, Go's date strings.

That is peak derpiness. Yet functional.

#Go #GoLang #LearningGo

Hey Go peeps...

Is this cursed?!? XD

$ cat ~/bin/gorun
#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -u   #treat undeclared variables as errors

if [[ ${1:-} ]]; then
    tempfile=$(mktemp).go
    grep -v "^#!/.*gorun*" "$1" > "$tempfile"
    go run "$tempfile"
    rm "$tempfile"
else
    echo "Please specify a file to \"go run.\" You may use this script as the shebang"
fi

$ cat tmp.go
#!/usr/bin/env gorun
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello world!!!")
}

$ chmod +x tmp.go
$ ./tmp.go
Hello world!!!

#Go #GoLang #LearningGo

Using backticks (` `) for multi-line strings in Go is... odd.

I rather prefer Python's solution: """ """ or ''' '''

Of course, in bash, nearly any string can be a multi-line string. :BlobCatHappie:

#LearningGo #Go #Golang #Issue9 #Python #Bash

Hey #LearningGo friends,

What do people think of the Coursera course, "Programming with Google Go Specialization?" >link<

#Go #GoLang #Issue9

@willprogramforcookies

Nice, how are you liking the book so far?

I'm going to use the hashtag #LearningGo to toot about my adventures, so you're welcome to use it too.

@thestrangelet

Great! How about a hashtag, like #LearningGo?

cc: @kirby

Learning Go 2E update:

Several people volunteered to review the draft and their feedback has been tremendous. Thanks so much!

I've also started updates for chapter 5 (functions). There aren't any implementation changes since the first edition, so my edits will be light. There had been a request for more examples explaining how closures work, and I'm adding exercises to every chapter. In a week or so, I should have it done, and then on to revising the pointers chapter!

#golang #learninggo

I'm in the middle of updating "Learning Go". There have been some exciting changes to Go since the 1st edition was released and there were things in the book I wanted to fix.

8 chapters have already been revised, with 8 more to go (there's a new chapter on tooling). I plan on posting weekly-ish updates on the current status.

I'm also looking for additional technical reviewers. DM me if you are interested!

Thanks to everyone who made the first edition such a success!

#golang #learninggo

@jonbodner Here's that #LearningGo praise you asked for...