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The Go Programming Language Phrasebook (Developer's Library)

The Go Programming Language Phrasebook (Developer's Library)
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By: David Chisnall (Author)  (Paperback - 2012)
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» Paperback: (288 pages)
» Publisher:  Addison-Wesley Professional (May 10, 2012)
» ISBN: 0321817141
» Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.5 x 0.7 inches
» Amazon.com Sales Rank: #628,221 in Books
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Book Description

The Go Programming Language Phrasebook

Essential Go code and idioms for all facets of the development process?

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This guide gives you the code "phrases" you need to quickly and effectively complete a wide variety of projects with Go, today's most exciting new programming language.

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Tested, easy-to-adapt code examples illuminate every step of Go development, helping you write highly scalable, concurrent software. You'll master Go-specific idioms for working with strings, collections, arrays, error handling, goroutines, slices, maps, channels, numbers, dates, times, files, networking, web apps, the runtime, and more.

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Concise and Accessible

Easy to carry and easy to use: Ditch all those bulky books for one portable pocket guide

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Flexible and Functional

Packed with more than 100 customizable code snippets: Quickly create solid Go code to solve just about any problem

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, bad edition, July 5, 2012
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Igor Karpov (Kiev, Ukraine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Go Programming Language Phrasebook (Developer's Library) (Kindle Edition)
The book is good. Sometimes it reminds me the classical K&R C Language bible. Unfortunately, the code snippets are missing when reading on my Kindle DX. And Amazon support was of no help in this case. I decided not to return the book anyway. It still can be read with Kindle for Macintosh.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent mini-immersion for experienced devs; beginners would find it rocky, August 25, 2013
This review is from: The Go Programming Language Phrasebook (Developer's Library) (Paperback)
Me: pretty deep background in both statically and dynaically typed languages prior to reading anything about go.

This is a great resource for somebody coming from java or one of the 4c languages (C++, # etc) who needs to get coding in a hurry. It presents both go's weak and strong points fairly, and goes fairly deeply into language design and compiler optimizations for a little book. Actually, it's not that little (258 pp excl. index). Also it was written for 1.0 so doesn't cover method values, terminating statements and some other 1.1 refinements, and tools for listing which interfaces a type implements were just released, so shortcomings listed in the book are getting ticked off the list.

Some of hte other reviews are correct that the Phrase book does comparisons to obscure languages (erlang, smalltalk) which aren't that edifying. The only other complaints: code printouts in white font on black background are tiring to look at and the index is very skimpy... Read more
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars So so, July 9, 2012
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The author writes as if the reader already has experience writing in Go, and they now want to learn how to instead write idiomatically. Each section has its own code sample that the author refers to in explaining concepts. This works well if the examples are good, but otherwise it can make the section not very informative. The author often makes references and comparisons to other programming languages when explaining concepts. Without knowing all of the languages being discussed, it is quite likely the reader will not understand what is being discussed and miss the point that is trying to be made.

There is a major formatting problem with this book (as of July 9, 2012) where most of the code samples are unreadable and appear invisible on a Kindle Keyboard or in the Cloud Reader.
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