Its 2024 and Go also known as Golang gets 15 years old many opensource projects like Kubernetes are built using Go and now its a perfect time to start learning the language. In this blogpost I will provide you some resources learning Go to start your coding journey with it.

What is Go and what is it used for?

Go was created in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson at Google and was announced in November 2009.

Go is also known as C for the 21st century and it shares similarities with C programming language. Its pretty easy today to get started with Go and here are some resources so you can start learning it.

Tour of Go
https://go.dev/tour/welcome/1

The Tour of Go lets you start learning Go with simple little exercises learning Go.

Go by Example

https://gobyexample.com/

Go by Example as the name implies shows you Go with coding example anyone can follow.

Getting help learning Go

The Go forum is a great place to ask questions about Go.

https://forum.golangbridge.org/

What about books?

Go In Action is a great book about Go written by William Kennedy , Brain Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin.
You can order it by Manning Publications following the link below.
https://www.manning.com/books/go-in-action

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