Tanmay Teaches Go
The Ideal Language for Backend Developers
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Discover how to write your own useful, efficient and lightweight Go programs quickly and easily This entertaining guide shows, step by step, how to build custom programs using Google’s Go, the new open-source programming language. Written by teenaged technology phenom Tanmay Bakshi and Baheer Kamal, the book is an engaging resource for programmers who want to leverage Go’s unique lightweight runtime and concurrency features to build their applications. You will learn Go programming with a particular emphasis on special features, including Channels, Goroutines, and interoperability with C. Tanmay Teaches Go: The Ideal Language for Backend Developers teaches by doing—it guides you through developing real applications and clearly explains each step along the way. Coverage includes Go Modules, the Go compiler, error handling, file and network I/O, and much more. Filled with examples and helpful hints, the book is every programmer’s essential guide to Go, one of today’s most popular computer programming languages. Presented in an accessible style that makes learning easy Teaches by example, leading you through real applications Written by a pair of online media personalities and coding experts
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It's difficult to say who this book is written for. It's not for beginners and some chapters make it seem that it is not for people who know other languages. The authors refer to some code from Swift and C, so awareness of that would help.
But a bigger problem is the style of writing as well. The way explanations and code samples flow is weird and it seemed that the author was oscillating between multiple styles throughout the book: the kind of result you might see if there are multiple reviewers on your codebase and you implement their suggestions selectively. All the chapters felt different in this regard.
I think the best description of this book is that it describes the various features of Go and then shows you some example code to explain the features. The example code resemble real world applications but there is no context.
All in all, skim it if you must but there are better ways to learn Go.