`Learning Go` - a free E-Book for learning the Go language.

The book currently consists of the following chapters:

Introduction: Show how to install Go and details the lineage of the language Go.
Basics: Types, variables and control structures.
Functions: How to make and use functions.
Packages: Functions and data are grouped together in packages. Here you will see how to make your own package. How to unit test your package is also described.
Beyond the basics: Learn how to create your own data types and define functions on them (called methods in Go).
Interfaces: Go does not support Object Orientation in the traditional sense. In Go the central concept is interfaces.
Concurrency: With the go keyword functions can be started in separate routines (called goroutines). Communication with these goroutines is done via channels.
Communication : How to create/read/write from and to files. And how to do networking.

Each chapter concludes with a number of exercises with answers to help you get some hands-on experience. Currently there are more than 30 exercises.

See http://www.golang.org for the homepage of Go.
[Learning Go Project page.] 2

Building the book

Package Prerequisites

When building this book from LaTeX sources files you will need the following packages on Ubuntu (tested on 12.04).

inkscape
gnumeric
ttf-droid
ttf-dejavu
ttf-sazanami-gothic (Japanese font)
ttf-arphic-ukai
texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-extra-utils
texlive-xetex
texlive-latex-extra
texlive-latex-recommended
latex-cjk-xcjk (Chinese font)
git-core
GNU make

Following is a shell script to automate the package prerequisites installation.

You can copy and paste the following code to your vt100 session to kickoff the chains of many packages installation.

# tested on Ubuntu 12.04
for i in inkscape \
gnumeric \
ttf-droid \
ttf-dejavu \
ttf-sazanami-gothic \
ttf-arphic-ukai \
texlive-fonts-recommended \
texlive-extra-utils \
texlive-xetex \
texlive-latex-extra \
texlive-latex-recommended \
latex-cjk-xcjk \
git-core \
make \
do 
sudo apt-get install $i -y
done

Checking out the `Learning Go` LaTeX sources.

Using http protocol.

me@ubuntu1204:~$git clone https://github.com/miekg/gobook.git 
Cloning into 'gobook'...
remote: Counting objects: 4515, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1385/1385), done.
remote: Total 4515 (delta 3106), reused 4512 (delta 3104)
Receiving objects: 100% (4515/4515), 1.53 MiB | 1.17 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3106/3106), done.
me@ubuntu1204:~$

Using git protocol if you already have github account setup.

git clone git@github.com:tjyang/gobook.git

Make the `Learning Go` Book

make

Download the prebuilt `Learning Go` book

Latest prebuilt pdf book [can be downloaded from http://www.miek.nl/files/go/] 1

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Learning Go - a free E-Book for learning the Go language.