Go Starter Kit

For Starters

1. How to write your first Go module: golang.org/doc/code.html
2. Guided (interactive) tour of Go: tour.golang.org
3. A deeper (non-interactive) tour: golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
4. The language spec (when you can't sleep): golang.org/ref/spec
5. The online Go playground: play.golang.org
6. The FAQ: golang.org/doc/faq
7. Slice tricks: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks

Classic Go Blog Articles:

1. Declaration Syntax
2. Defer, Panic, and Recover
3. Error Handling
4. Using Go Modules
5. Maps in Action
6. Go fmt your code
7. Concurrency Patterns
8. Talk: Concurrency is not Parallelism
9. The Cover Story (test coverage tool)
10. Laws of Reflection
11. JSON and Go

Essential Standard Library Packages

• builtin
• fmt
• io
• errors
• strings
• strconv
• io/ioutil
• testing

Standard Library Packages You'll Eventually Need to Know

• bufio
• bytes
• crypto/md5
• crypto/rand
• database/sql
• encoding/csv
• encoding/hex
• encoding/json
• flag
• hash
• html/template
• log
• net/http
• net/http/httptest
• net/http/httputil
• net/url
• os
• os/exec
• path/filepath
• reflect
• regexp
• runtime
• sort
• sync
• text/template
• time

3rd Party Packages

• https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go

Testing

• https://golang.org/doc/faq#testing_framework :(
• https://github.com/smartystreets/gunit (xUnit, for go)
• https://github.com/smartystreets/assertions (testing helpers, so there.)
• https://github.com/smartystreets/goconvey (got very popular, so I don't use it anymore ;)
• https://smartystreets.com/blog/2015/02/go-testing-part-1-vanillla/
• https://smartystreets.com/blog/2015/02/go-testing-part-2-running-tests/
• https://smartystreets.com/blog/2015/05/go-testing-part-3-convey-behavior/
• https://smartystreets.com/blog/2015/08/go-testing-part-4-standalone-assertions/
• https://smartystreets.com/blog/2015/09/go-testing-part-5-testing-with-time/
• https://smartystreets.com/blog/2018/03/history-of-go-testing/
• https://smartystreets.com/blog/2016/11/our-testing-tools/
• https://smartystreets.com/blog/2018/07/lets-build-xunit-in-go/

StackOverflow Questions

• How to check if a file exists in go?
• How to efficiently concatenate strings in go?
• What are the uses for tags in go?
• How to print struct variables in console?
• When is the init function run?
• Reading a file line by line in go?
• Pointers vs values in parameters and return values?
• What is the idiomatic go equivalent of cs ternary operator?
• How to read write from to file using go?
• Difference between and operators in go?
• Checking the equality of two slices?
• How to read from standard input in the console?
• How to get the directory of the currently running file?
• Why would i make or new?

Controversial/Emerging Topics

• Go 2
  • https://blog.golang.org/go2draft
• Generics
  • https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3912089/why-no-generics-in-go
  • https://blog.jonathanoliver.com/golang-has-generics/
• Naming Conventions and Clean Code
  • https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments
  • https://michaelwhatcott.com/go-code-that-stutters/
  • https://michaelwhatcott.com/receiver-names-in-go/
  • https://michaelwhatcott.com/familiarity-admits-brevity/
  • https://michaelwhatcott.com/assignments-and-ifs/

Tools

• https://godoc.org

-Michael Whatcott