Get Programming with Go

I'm only half way through it. It is a very detailed and clear introduction to GO. All the problems when typed into the Golang Playground have worked with one possible exception that just showed up this morning. That was one of the few listings that actually had a typographic error in it. Two parentheses were missing at the ends of two lines of code. I fixed that but something is still undefined. But in general I am well satisfied that this is a complete and thorough tutorial of a spectacularly well designed programming language which is clearly designed to get work done, not to impress with its theoretical brilliance. I have seen it somewhat derisively described somewhere as C with guardrails. It is much much more than just a sanitized version of C. I am very pleased both with the tutorial and with the language. This is a tutorial I am going to finish and an programming language I am going to use. Oh, and it's fun to code in. How about that!

The publisher's Get Programming... series are for beginners and so is this title. The format assumes no prior experience and topics are introduced in a very beginner-friendly manner.As a beginner, I would strongly recommend this title to other beginners.

I love this book as a study guide, it gives you plenty of projects to work to get you started.

I've read Go using other books but could not use Go to solve problems(maybe because I was still stuck on syntax. I cannot really explain why I could not use it to solve simple programming problems.) After reading this book, I can basically solve problems and have a deeper understanding of Go. It does not cover some topics though like packages but it's an awesome book.

very useful for understanding the core parts of go for the c crowd who want to be able to read and understand what code is going to run and what it is and is not going to do.. it is a little light on the upper end of go like concurrency and reflection which is fine with c programmers who never took up the ++ addition to c with its excessive inheritance of libraries and classes.

This was a great introduction to Go. It got me interested in learning more. Everything in the book can be reproduced directly from Go Playground (no need to install anything). Very easy to read, without skipping detail.

Half way through but i love this book. This is how all programming books should be.

Code snippets produce errors; this book is out-of-date. Not beginner friendly.