My experience with this book has been different. I thought it was superb -- a masterpiece of clarity.
I don't think it's intended for absolute beginners to programming but it's great for people with prior programming experience. It seems to me unlikely there isn't a suitable absolute beginners book available from publishers such as Manning, O'Reilly and No Starch Press. S On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 16:09, Rob Muhlestein <r...@rwx.gg> wrote: > > As an educator and mentor I've had very negative feedback about that book > from dozens, from 12 to 50 years old. I preordered 25 when it came out and > regret ever having anyone start Go with it. One brilliant kid (who went on to > teach himself Assembly and C) nearly threw it at me. To date, I have been > unable to solidly recommend any book for beginners. This lack of *good* > beginner instruction remains one of the great flaws of Go in general. I'm > asked daily what to buy and have nothing to tell them. I bought "Mastering > Go" recently and it contains "generics" as proposed from 2019 (I should have > known since Packt published it). I know the authors are capable, good people, > but these books just do not hit the mark. It is one of the *only* areas where > I can confidently say Rust does a better job. Their documentation team is > amazing. > > On Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 6:22:47 AM UTC-5 christoph...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Hello Go friends, >> >> is there a new edition of the "Go Programming Language" book to be published >> soon ? >> It is quite old now and there have been a few changes to Go since then. >> Go.mod and generics. I was considering buying it, but if a new edition comes >> out in a few months, it would be wasted money. > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/35da213c-0ff6-4677-b800-f4aa79ea0130n%40googlegroups.com. -- Steve Mynott <steve.myn...@gmail.com> rsa3072/629FBB91565E591955B5876A79CEFAA4450EBD50 -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CANuZA8QOX%2Bk7mY5%3DMzU9uv8WD85M%2BRqhZSfTBtMRSc_dYKE0%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com.
