Learning and teaching Go

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Bill Kennedy joined the show and talked with Carlisia about learning Go, teaching Go (which is something we’ll do at some point or another), making good presentations, and other interesting projects and news.

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Featuring:

• Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Presentation help

Gopher Guides

Buffalo

Golang UK Conference 2016 - Dave Cheney - SOLID Go Design

Is Go An Object Oriented Language?

These articles will explain how to organize your Go packages:

• Style guideline for Go packages
• Standard Package Layout
• Go best practices, six years in - Repository Structures
• Design Philosophy On Packaging

CppCon 2014: Mike Acton “Data-Oriented Design and C++

Go Challenge

dotGo 2016 - Damian Gryski - Slices: Performance through cache-friendliness

GopherCon India - Matt Ellis

Dave Cheney - How to write a successful conference proposal

Resources for New Speakers

GopherChina

GopherCon Singapore

GopherCon Iceland

Women Who Go to Gophercon Denver 2018

StickerMule

How working at GitLab has changed my view on work and life

Learn to create web apps using Go (affiliate link)

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Placement Pal

Flogo

“If boring repetitive things aren’t automated, a manager gets hired” – Niranjan Paranjape

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Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Bill - dep (shout out to Sam Boyer)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!