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Best resources for learning Go programming language in 2023
Key is to get extensive hands-on practise in parallel to studying theory
I’ve started to learn Go programming language (https://go.dev/) and will note down key resources I consider high-quality in this page.
The ideal mix of resources will include traditional ways of learning such as Udemy courses and Youtube, but critically it must be combined with gamification via hands-on exercises and a dopamine reward system.
You don’t necessarily need to spend any money to learn Go — there are plenty of free resources available. But, the resources I used were a mix of paid and free.
The key to making fast and non-overwhelming progress is this — You need to learn a new concept and then immediately be able to write code which stitches together a handful of topics you already know about (e.g. strings and formatting) combined with the just-newly-learnt concept (e.g loops).
Go: The Complete Developer’s Guide (Golang) by Stephen Grider:
Single handedly the best training course I’ve seen in a long time. The use of numerous diagrams really hammers down the concepts.
