is the Go tour really that out of touch for people with little to no programming experience? I'd think there's enough in there to keep one busy for quite a while. Now, whether that work is actually interesting to them is another matter...
I sat my 9 year old daughter in front of the tour a few months back and she completed a number of samples. She had questions for words she's never heard so maybe extending the tour with pop-out help on jargon might be a nice contrast to how the tour currently compares itself to other languages for basic constructs (the inexperienced vs the experienced). Understanding errors on the screen is another important part that's pretty much uncovered, and so biased towards those that have dealt with errors before from other languages. On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:16 AM Matt Aimonetti <mattaimone...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just wanted to point out a post I published today talking about the fact > that we are often leaving new / less experienced Go developers high and > dry: > https://medium.com/@mattetti/go-is-for-everyone-b4f84be04c43 > > I'd love to see what you all in mind to help new or junior developers. > Maybe share some of the pain points you've experienced or seen (for > instance setting up the Go path, finding resources to get started etc...) > I'm thinking about a bunch of very short posts on basic topics and maybe a > real beginner tour of Go. We are going to do a beginner night next month at > our LA/Santa Monica Go meetup and hopefully better understand what the > current pain points/blockers are. > > What do you think? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
