there are plenty books about goang like for any other language, and most of them about learning go like beginner stuff. And when it comes to that, I'm pretty sure there a bunch of uh good ones. But what I read and what I covered is a book called learning go, an idiomatic approach, something like that. Uh I recommend it because I think, I think when you learn a language, it is really important to learn uh the idiomatic approach to solving particular problems and stuff like that, right? Besides these, there are there are books about specific topic within a within a language, like for example, this one concurrency go in in go. But what I think the most useful book like overall for for any uh level of experience is a book called 100 gr mistakes and how to avoid them. If you were programming in Java uh like I did before moving to go, you are probably familiar with a book called Effective Java. So this is basically like Effective Java in go. And if you know uh Effective Java, it's like the book for for Java programmers.

book is written by author called Tia. I hope I didn't butcher the name. At the time of writing the book, I think he was working at Docker, and now he's a senior engineer Google. I guess having a book in your resume is like a good thing, right? The book itself is full of information that is really nicely presented, and that is one of the good things about it, right? It is separated into various topics, and within each of those topics, the author mentioned and covered most known mistakes that we as Go programmers did or could do in the future, right, or maybe doing right now. The topics go all the way from project organization to subjects like goal and concurrency, and goal performance and optimization. What I like the most is that before going and explaining the mistake itself, the author always gives a really good introduction to basic concepts about the subject, right? But when I say really good, I mean like

really really good like, uh, it is useful for a beginner programmer in general, but also has meat for an experienced developer. Like, for example, a section, a section about, uh, Go concurrency. So, this is a hard topic in general, but here the author did an excellent job on explaining like everything from the Go runtime and how Go routines are managed and scheduled all the way to Go, to Go memory model specification itself, right? And if we talk about Go memory model, this is like one of the best explanations, uh, about the topic, and I covered a bunch of, a bunch of them. And not just that, when you like read about Go concurrency in general, you, you will rarely come across about Go memory model like in this whole book on the topic, right? You will not, for some reason, read about, read about Go memory, Go memory model. And here in this book that talks about a bunch of different things, you will, you will find really good explanation about the topic. And this just shows you how much there is really good stuff in here. And no, this is not a paid

commercial for the book right. I simply really like it. It helped me a lot when learning the language. And like when programming in Go, like on on daily basis. It is actually usually on my desk, like like a reference when I stumble upon something. I don't know. I simply highly recommended. And I'm pretty sure you're going to like it as well. Like always, thank you very much for watching. I really hope you liked it. And if you did, maybe give me a thumbs up and maybe consider subscribing. Why not, right? So you don't miss the next video. And until then, bye-bye.

The Most Useful Book for a Go Programmer?

Hi, I’m Inel, a software engineer with 10+ years of experience and I simply love building software and learning how it all works underneath. 

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The Most Useful Book for a Go Programmer?

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