Go Reading List

Don't know what resources to read and how to get started might lead to long and challenged journey on learning a new programming language. This article show you a list of articles you should read when learning Go from basic to advanced.

The best way to start is reading the top 4 resources of the Beginner section, do some basic exercises and then continue to read the Intermediate and Advanced sections while working on an intermediate project.

Beginner #

• The Tour of Go
• Go by example
• Install Go
• How to write Go code
• Effective Go and Go idiomatic
• Go FAQ
• Go Talks
• Go Awesome

Intermediate #

Array, Slice #

• Go slices usage and internals
• Slices

Strings #

• Strings

Functions #

• Defer, Panic, and Recover
• First Class Functions in Go

Errors #

• Errors are values
• Error handling in Go
• Error handling in Go 1.13

Interface #

• Gift decoder exercise in Go interface
• Law of Reflection

HTTP #

• HTTP package in Go doc
• HTTP Tracing

Context #

• Context
• Contexts and structs

Testing #

• Testing package
• HTTP Testing
• Table driven testing
• Using Subtests and Sub - benchmarks

Database #

• Go database tutorial
• SQLX

Goroutines #

• Sharing by communicating
• Concurrency is not parallelism
• Go Concurrency Patterns: Context
• Go concurrency patterns timing out, moving on
• Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation
• Introducing the Go Race Detector
• Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns

Generics #

• Generics Tutorial
• Introduction To Generics
• Generics Proposal
• When To Use Generics

Go Modules #

• Using Go Modules Series

Advanced #

• Go Spec
• Go Proverbs
• Laws of reflection
• Interface
• Profiling Go programs
• Getting to Go: The Journey of Go's Garbage Collector
• A Quick Guide to Go's Assembler

Books #

Note: to be fair with the authors, please buy the books if you can.

• The Go Programming Language - Donovan, Alan A. A
• Go in Practice
• Build web application with Go
• Go Advanced Programming
• Go programming language secure coding practices guide (FREE)