Resources for new Go programmers

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This page lists a few resources for programmers interested in learning about the Go language.

Installing Go and configuring your workspace

Start here to learn how to set up a workspace to write Go code.

• How to Write Go Code
• Writing, building, installing, and testing Go code

Online Resources

Once you ' ve got your environment set up, here is some excellent resources to learn Go.

• The Go programming language tour
• The Go bootcamp book, everything-need to know-to-get started with go, by Matt Aimonetti.
• Go by example
• Effective Go
• The Go language FAQ
• The Go style guide
• Going Go programming by WIlliam Kennedy

• An incomplete list of Go tools by Dominik Honnef

Tutorials

• Writing table driven tests in Go
  
• Writing Benchmarks in Go
• Learn x in Y minutes (where X = = Go) by Sonia Keys
• Tutorial:go (Golang) pointers in 5 Minutes
• How to set up a Go project repository

Books

Several Books has already been published about Go.

• An Introduction to programming on Go by Caleb Doxsey
• Programming in Go by Mark Summerfield
• Learning Go by Miek Gieben (nearing completion)
• Go in Action by Brian Ketelsen, Erik St. Martin, and William Kennedy
• More books, Http://go-lang.cat-v.org/books

Presentations

Here is a selection of presentations on Go targeted at those wanting to learn about the language.

• Getting started with Go, by Andrew Gerrand.
• A Tour of the Go, by Russ Cox.
• Go at Google, Rob Pike, SPLASH 2012.
• More presentations, talks.golang.org and the community wiki.

Community Resources

Interact with the Go programming community.

• #go-nuts IRC channel at Freenode. For the truly curious the channel was logged by botbot.me.
• the Go playground
• #golang  on Twitter.
• go+ community on Google Plus.
• Go user groups and meetups.
• golang-nuts Mailing list. This is a high volume list. You could find it more rewarding to interact with the group via email, rather than the Google Groups Web interface.
• Gopher Academy
• Gophercon
• Go questions on StackOverflow
• godoc.org  (was go.pkgdoc.org)
• the Go programming Language Blog
• Go Community Wiki
• Goin Wiki (under development)