Using Go to teach Go

Wondering what steps you can take to help teach Go or train junior Gophers? Here are my slides from Golang Sheffield meetup group 6/12/18 that cover my experiences of mentoring juniors.

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1. Using Go to teach Go: A guide to mentoring Junior Gophers. By Will Gough. @whg_codes https://devtheweb.io
2. Who am I? - Software Engineer @ Bet365 // Manchester - Started writing Go full-time in June @ Bet365. Writing as a hobby for 2ish years. - Previously worked for LadBible Group and Ampersand Commerce writing Node APIs, Laravel, and React apps.
3. ➔ Context What, how, and why? ➔ Resources The tools at our disposal. ➔ Solutions Automated mentoring...
4. Context Month 1 Learning the basics, reading all materials. Month 2 Start on their first training project. Month 3 Start on their second training project. Finished! Juniors now ready to start hacking away at microservices.
5. Provided Reading - The Go Programming Language. - Brian Kernighan, Alan A. A. Donovan - Site Reliability Engineering - Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Richard Murphy - Concurrency in Go - Katherine Cox-Buday - Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann
6. Additional Resources - Gophercises - Gobyexample - Learn go by tests - JustForFunc Youtube Channel - Gophers slack channel
7. AutomatingzZz - Awesome Go toolchain - A ton of bash scripts - Makefiles - Pre-commit hooks - A load testing CLI - Automatic pprof web view
8. What worked - Pair Programming - Online Resources - Pre-commit hooks & tooling - Self-directed learning - Hard to balance workload and mentoring on a 3 juniors. - Training materials lacked context and information on other important parts of being a developer e.g Git, JIRA - Everybody learns differently, it can’t be done in a one-size fits all. What didn’t
9. My top tips for mentoring: Don’t take advantage of what you consider basic knowledge. Always encourage them to ask questions. Create opportunities for different types of learners.
10. Any questions? @whg_codes https://devtheweb.io