There are a lot of concepts we take for granted such as functions/methods, the main func, strings etc.. Then a lot of the exercises are quite technical/math related instead of being more day to day based. I love the tour but I think it works best if you're already a developer.
On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 8:40:45 AM UTC-7, Daniel Skinner wrote: > > 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 <mattai...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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.
