Dear Go experts, I finally decided to dive into Go. Searching around "go.dev", I can't seem to find proper introduction, suitable for C programmer. Can someone point me to where it might be buried? I want the usual introduction, starting with - data types, variables, data structures - syntax (Go seems to use more symbols than C) - if-then, loops, functions, etc. Eg. I started with func main() { code, text := fmt.Print ("Print:", "hello", "world\n") code, text := fmt.Printf ("Printf: %s %s\n", "hello", "world") code, text := fmt.Println ("Println:", "hello", "world") } and got errors. I managed to figure it out, by trial and error. Not very efficient learning...
I found the regular go book,/The Go Programming Language/ by Donovan and Brian Kertnighan was reminiscent of the C book, and easy to work from. For how to learn, I might look and see if there is a good O'Reilly talk series. I see a bunch listed. --dave On 10/13/24 23:28, William Park via talk wrote:
Dear Go experts,
I finally decided to dive into Go. Searching around "go.dev", I can't seem to find proper introduction, suitable for C programmer. Can someone point me to where it might be buried?
I want the usual introduction, starting with - data types, variables, data structures - syntax (Go seems to use more symbols than C) - if-then, loops, functions, etc.
Eg. I started with
func main() { code, text := fmt.Print ("Print:", "hello", "world\n") code, text := fmt.Printf ("Printf: %s %s\n", "hello", "world") code, text := fmt.Println ("Println:", "hello", "world") }
and got errors. I managed to figure it out, by trial and error. Not very efficient learning... --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
-- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain
I'm now going through "tour of go" (go.dev/tour), keeping "spec" (go.dev/ref/spec) and "standard library" (pkg.go.dev/std) open in other tabs for reference. One thing I find irritating is that variable comes first and then its type. This is stopping the flow of my reading. Too used to C. -- On 2024-10-13 23:28, William Park via talk wrote:
Dear Go experts,
I finally decided to dive into Go. Searching around "go.dev", I can't seem to find proper introduction, suitable for C programmer. Can someone point me to where it might be buried?
I want the usual introduction, starting with - data types, variables, data structures - syntax (Go seems to use more symbols than C) - if-then, loops, functions, etc.
Eg. I started with
func main() { code, text := fmt.Print ("Print:", "hello", "world\n") code, text := fmt.Printf ("Printf: %s %s\n", "hello", "world") code, text := fmt.Println ("Println:", "hello", "world") }
and got errors. I managed to figure it out, by trial and error. Not very efficient learning... --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
participants (2)
-
David Collier-Brown -
William Park