I wrote a book about Everyday Go

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2021-06-22 17:00:04

Today I've published my first eBook on Go called "Everyday Golang". I wanted to share the news with you, what to expect and a bit about the story behind it.

If you've ever searched for "Golang unit-testing", then you may have found one of my tutorials or videos about Go. I started my journey with the language in around 2015, when I had a strong interest in contributing to and learn about Docker.

As I learned, I noticed that my Go started off looking like the last language I'd used, but over time it improved. Sometimes it was not comfortable being told "Your code is not idiomatic", but it only spurred me on.

Most of what I learned was through trial and error, or reading other codebases, but I also list books that I found helpful at the time.

There are various blog posts I've published that get a lot of hits, but they were never about teaching the fundamentals like structs and variable types. They were practical and served a purpose. Oftentimes the purpose was to help onboard new open source contributors, or to publish something I had learned.