Page XV: "We assume that you have programmed in one or more languages, whether compiled like C, C++, and Java, or interpreted like Python, Ruby, and JavaScript, so we won't spell out everything as if for a total beginner."
On Monday, March 14, 2022 at 12:11:34 PM UTC-4 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/f3e3b316-9fb8-4824-95f6-bb1f80c17e47n%40googlegroups.com.
