Preface

Who is the book for?

This eBook is an introduction to the Go language. The intended audience are people who are familiar with programming and know some programming language. This does not teach you how to program, rather it teaches you how to use Go.

What will you learn?

In the end, you will understand and know the basics of the Go language.

Using code examples

All of the code in this book can be used pretty much anywhere and anyway you please.

What else should I read?

Reading the following documents is certainly not required, but it is recommended.

Acknowledgements

There are a good number of people who deserve thanks for their help and support they provided, either while or before this eBook was written, and there are still others whose help will come after the eBook is released. For help with proof reading, checking exercises and text improvements, I would like to thank Anders Persson6, Basant Singh7, Jose Carlos Monteiro8, Kevin Lozandier9, Kiran Mysore10, Kirit Ayya11, Marcelo Magallon12, Nilesh Govindrajan13, Peggy Li14, Prathamesh Sonpatki15, Valindo Godinho16 and Victor Goff17.

The Gopher character is based on the Go mascot designed by Renée French18 and copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

How to contact me

I can be reached via e-mail at satish.talim@gmail.com. Please contact me if you have any questions, comments, kudos or criticism on the eBook. Constructive criticism is definitely appreciated; I want this eBook to get better through your feedback.

Thanks

Thanks for downloading and checking out this eBook. As part of the lean publishing philosophy, you’ll be able to interact with me as the eBook is completed. I’ll be able to change things, reorganize parts, and generally make a better eBook. I hope you enjoy.

  1. https://golang.org/doc/code.html↩
  2. https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1↩
  3. https://golang.org/ref/spec↩
  4. https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html↩
  5. https://golang.org/doc/faq↩
  6. https://twitter.com/uandersp↩
  7. https://twitter.com/SinghBasant↩
  8. https://github.com/straider↩
  9. https://github.com/lozandier↩
  10. https://twitter.com/techgravity↩
  11. https://twitter.com/kirit_ayya↩
  12. https://github.com/mem↩
  13. https://twitter.com/nileshgr↩
  14. https://twitter.com/_peggyli↩
  15. https://twitter.com/_cha1tanya↩
  16. https://twitter.com/Valindogodinho↩
  17. https://twitter.com/kotp↩
  18. http://reneefrench.blogspot.in/↩

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