The Best Resources to Learn Golang (If I Could Start Over)

How I would Learn Go If I started Over. I get this question all the time when I stream or when i am just programming. It seems Golang has really picked up in popularity lately, and so many new programmers want to know what are the best resources for learning Go.
In this video I give the best articles, styles, thought process and textbooks on how to learn Go!

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The Best Resources to Learn Golang (If I Could Start Over)

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[MelkeyDev]

I hope you all enjoy the video!
Make sure to comment + like and subscribe if you want more.
Also - what are some resources you recommend?

[vishal-shinde]

Thank you! I have been following you for 2–3 months. I like your content. Likewise, I have been looking to learn Go in 2024, one of my goals.

[durchschnittlich]

Great recommendations!
Especially the more advanced resources are not be skipped! I tried to skip them and now, every time I get hung up on something, I end up reading them. Do yourself the favor and learn with them, even though you're programming for years. They will help you a ton!

[akhileshwargurram]

Can definitely vouch for let's go and let's go further, hands down the best resources to learn Go in-depth

[erikslorenz]

Go has been such a breath of fresh air from node and the whole js thing. I made pretty solid client sdks for our 3 main systems and have been moving all our services over to go the past year or so. Actually am finishing up the first from scratch go one this week. It’s really amazing not having to spend 4 hours looking up what your tsconfig is supposed to be and seeing if something has finally replaced express (it hasn’t). Gotta love monkey patching so you can use async await almost a decade later!

[bjni]

im learning Golang from Boot Dev, its amazing hands on gamifying learning backend dev. tons of on hand projects that you make in the course, a Pokedex a blog aggregator, im currently learning webservers in golang! its awesome!

[snickersanyone]

I finished CS50 the other day and decided that I want to continue learning programming with Go instead of C or Python. I did the tour, followed it up with "Learn Go With Tests, " and started a small side project.

Boy, am I lost. Transitioning from a structured course to "real" programming is challenging. I really miss stuff like check50. Having to write my own tests, wrapping my head around aferofs because I need to test file system interactions without blowing up my system, the constant complaints from gopls, perfectly fine functions turning into a mess after a poor attempt at refactoring…

But Go has been fun so far and fantastic for someone as inexperienced as I am. Thanks for the video, it couldn’t have dropped at a better time!

[headlights-go-up]

i remember you mentioning on stream about maybe not being a strictly Go related youtube channel, but I must say I wouldnt mind if you WERE strictly go. its great stuff and I learn a lot.

but tbh either way I'm going to enjoy what you put out lol.

[ark_knight]

Yep, I think his name is Alex Edwards? Let's Go is an awesome book for beginners coming into Go but have done web development in other language. Going through it at the moment. The way he communicates his point is very very nice and easy to digest. Have went into Let's Go Further haha

[LengCPP]

I do this in my spare time at work. Very good

[SergeBrazuca]

Basically, I'm starting with the book Lets Go by Alex Edwards and Web Development With Go by Jon Calhoun. Both are great books that implement projects and complement each other.

[heyjitendra]

I just completed Go course by Maximilian and it's quite decent. Could be a great starting point. Took me like 5 days (I have previous experience of TS and university level C)

[nyashachiroro]

Those books by Alex Edwards are a masterpiece. Even his blog is amazing.

[yunyang]

please recommend me some best open source projects to learn in go

[wilfredv]

that's the path you could use if you start over, but what path did you actually take ?

[nmlss]

Jon Calhoun has a great video course on web development with go

[mementomori]

I've gone through 2 books ("Let's go" + "Writing an interpreter in go") and I'm like 70% done with "Let's go further"...I'm getting pretty familiar with the language. Now I just need to do something big and real with it, or I'll forever be a "Junior" dev.

[_Ki_Power_n]

Can I learn backend development in golang, i completely fresher with c and c++, will i able to get job as fresher in Golang ??

[astrocanyounaut]

hey i’m not sure if you address these in your video, but i’m a beginner in go and i have some questions!!
what resources should i learn?? what’s the best course you can recommend? melkey, how did YOU learn golang?? thx in advance, shawty

[mikereynolds]

Well i tried to add the links to the places Melkey mentioned in this video but our google/YouTube overlords wont allow it 😢