How to Raise a Gopher in Record Time

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How to Raise a Gopher in Record Time Tiffany Jernigan @tiffanyfayj

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@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

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@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)

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@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

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@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

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@tiffanyfayj Outline ● Where to Begin? ● More Websites ● Tools ● Training ● Coding Practice ● Communities ● Conferences

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Where to Begin? Where to Begin?

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@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

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@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

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@tiffanyfayj Where to Begin? ● Source code ○ https://golang.org/src ○ https://github.com/golang/go

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More Websites More Websites

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@tiffanyfayj Code Examples ● Go by Example ○ https://gobyexample.com/ ○ Has code as well as explanations and output ○ Shows more general concepts

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@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

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@tiffanyfayj Blogs ● Official Golang blog ○ https://blog.golang.org/ ○ Written by Googlers who work on Go ○ Detailed descriptions of every big release

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@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

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@tiffanyfayj Blogs ● Bill Kennedy’s blog ○ https://www.goinggo.net/

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@tiffanyfayj Blogs ● Gopher Academy ○ https://blog.gopheracademy.com/ ○ Written by several people

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Training Training

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@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

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@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

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@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

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Tools Tools

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@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

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@tiffanyfayj Tools ● Gofmt ○ https://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/ ○ Formats your code to the Go standard format ○ I have format on save set

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@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

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@tiffanyfayj Tools ● Autocomplete ○ https://github.com/nsf/gocode ○ Start typing and it will show options ○ Very helpful for learning

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@tiffanyfayj Tools ● Godef ○ https://github.com/rogpeppe/godef ○ Jumps to where the code you’re looking at is defined

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Coding Practice Coding Practice

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@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

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@tiffanyfayj 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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@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

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Communities Communities

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@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

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@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

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Conferences Conferences

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@tiffanyfayj Conferences ● The large scale version of meetups ○ More talks ○ More people ● Many are Go-specific https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Conferences

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@tiffanyfayj Conferences ● GopherCon (Denver, Colorado) ○ https://www.gophercon.com/ ○ Videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx9QVEA pa5BKLw9r8cnOFEA/playlists ○ Slides https://github.com/gophercon/

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@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/ ○

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@tiffanyfayj Conferences ● GolangUK ○ http://golanguk.com/ ● dotGo (France) ○ http://www.dotgo.eu/ ○ https://www.youtube.com/user/dotconference s/playlists ● GoLab (Italy) ○ golab.io

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@tiffanyfayj Conferences ● GothamGo (New York) ○ http://gothamgo.com/ ● GopherChina ○ http://gopherchina.org/ ● And there are others too!

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@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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Thanks! @tiffanyfayj Thanks! @tiffanyfayj