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[ThePrimeTimeagen]

The author of Learning Go has reached out to let me know that his book is not teaching you if statements, but about creating idiomatic ago. Just in case there was any confusion

[erictrinque]

Book Mentioned:
100 go mistakes and how to avoid them - Manning Publications.
the other referenced :
Concuurency in GO - Oreilly publications
Zero To Production In Rust - Luca Palmieri
personal mention:
Learning GO edition 2- Oreilly pub.
Learning Concurrent Programming with GO - Manning Pub.

[dakata]

Only Prime can make a 4 minute video into a 15 minute one.

[wojciechorzechowski]

I fully agree. I have 7 years experience in software engineering and still struggle with CSS because there is so many BS toy examples how to make a round button but not that many how to position stuff properly on the page if you want X, or "do <something> instead of <something else> because <reason>".
I gave up on frontend because of that.

[TheFreshMakerHD]

I used to hate reading programming books, but as I gain more experience, I come to learn that I really cannot trust some random internet dude's blog posts. Books aren't perfect, but they have heavily vetted information, they are well edited, and theres a standard of quality when it comes to book writing that you rarely see on the internet. SO when i jump into a new language for the first time, i generally try to look for a book that will teach me everything i need to know, and also act as a good reference for when i am actually writing code.

[julianschmid]

The pipeline from Java to Go looks real to me. I know a bunch of people that switched from Java to Go and have no interest in Rust. Go just seems to be a good match for Java programmers.

[jonathanjacobson]

Packt is THE publisher that seems to allow anyone to fulfill their dream of writing a shit of a technical book just to tick the box of writing a technical book.

[meatcow]

Thanks for recommending the Rust Zero to Production book so much.
I picked it up a few weeks ago w/o any real Rust experience, and it's been great.

The best part about it is how he typically shows you the naive approach, then shows you how to refactor it into idiomatic Rust, and THEN how to refactor it even more so using the community libs.
The HttpResponse coercion / into Error stuff has def been my favorite part so far.

[jearsh]

"think there's going to be a swell of available go jobs" sounds like another blue hair bet to me

[martinmaartensson]

BEST BOOKS FOR LANGUAGES:

Go: The Go Programming Language by Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan
Python: Fluent python by Luciano Ramalho
Rust: The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nochols
Haskell: Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton

TO LEARN:

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[ozkifovxvypyvp]

'didn't just give us the tip, full shaft learning', never change Prime, never change.

[billybest]

Go will probably be next for me. Balls deep in Rust right now. Working on a startup and Im thinking the products we offer will be built in Rust but in the dev services we offer a lot of time using Go makes more sense and it might be easier to find Go devs.

[ArjunSinghBhadauriya]

"I think your hair was green in the previous"
innit

[elbaraaabuaraki]

there's a book store in my country that is specialized in niche programming books they're categorized by language and all the books are very specific niche topics

[ahmedeox]

Get book. Speed read. Make mindmap of architecture, dos and donts and capabilities of language/library/framework. Start project. Read documentation for implementation details.

[TurtleKwitty]

I bought a physical copy of the Real World Ocaml book cause I wanted to support the work that goes into the learning resources of Ocaml, and I like a physical reference for me I tend to remember what place in a book I've seen a thing Im trying to remember so sometimes when Im blanking on terms/specific concepts and looking them up is hard I rememeber where I saw it and a physical book is easy to know where to find it again on my shelf behind me.

[ivanjermakov]

6:10 Java is getting better. I can't stand pre-8 Java but with lambdas, streams and switch expressions it is a great language to work with.

[victorbandeirastevanin]

Learning from a book is 100 times more productive for me than from a video.

1. Read
2. Explain to yourself in your own words
3. Instantly transcribe to paper or a text editor to test what you've read

A video, for me, is much more cluttered. I believe reading transports your brain to a learning state much more easily because it's much harder to do so passively without realizing it compared to watching a video.
In the video, there are many elements instead of just you and what you have to learn.

[scottd.]

The Go Programming Language by: Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian Kernighan. This book is heavy on wisdom, from the creators of go, and not mentioned here.

[sfulibarri]

I think 'learn python the hard' way is the quintessential beginner programming book. Assumes the reader is literally starting from zero and is structured as a series of exercises.