I needed to learn Go quickly for my job and this book made it easy. With an easy-to-read style and clear sections, I am very pleased with this resource.

This is probably the best coding book that I've bought. I love the way it's laid out, the activities and exercises. I'm busy working my easy through it now and I'm working hard to really learn the material. I highly recommend this book!

Lots of errors/mistakes in the book. Chapter on Modules comes before chapter on packages, though the text in the chapter indicates it should come after. Chapter on functions doesn't really cover receivers. The calculation for overtime in the example code is just wrong.

Chapter on modules - some examples don't work.

There is good stuff in the book, but also errors and inconsistencies.

This book covers a wide range of topics surrounding Go, from the very basics of syntax and control flow, up to real world scenarios which contain different solutions for approaching the same problem. If you're already familiar with Go, there's still lots of good material here - just skip the beginning. If you're new to Go or even relatively new to programming, this book gently eases you in with thorough explanations of the basics, and it holds your attention by using interesting problems instead of context-less exercises. Highly recommend!

Go Programming - Beginner to Professional" by Samantha Coyle is an outstanding resource for mastering Go programming. Here’s why:

1.Starts with the basics and progresses to advanced topics, ensuring a solid foundation and smooth transition.

2.Includes hands-on exercises and projects at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning.

3. Author's clear explanations and engaging style make complex topics accessible and enjoyable to read.

Pros:

Well-structured for all levels

Clear, practical examples

Effective hands-on exercises

Accessible writing style

Conclusion: Whether you're new to programming or experienced in other languages, this book is an excellent guide to becoming proficient in Go. Highly recommended!

I'm so impressed with this book—it's incredibly comprehensive, taking you from beginner to professional. It starts with the basics and progresses to creating HTTP services and command line interfaces, two very common uses of Golang. The numerous examples reinforce your understanding of each topic, making the learning curve much easier to manage. This book stands out not only because it uses the latest version of Golang, but also because Samantha has broken down each topic in a way that's easy to digest. If you're looking for one book to learn Golang, I highly recommend this one!

I highly recommend this book to anyone trying to learn more about Go or even just as a refresher. It covers the basics at detail before covering more advanced topics that are super relevant when it comes to professional Go development. Specifically, I love the book coverage on testing and monitoring Go applications running in the cloud. Additionally, it goes over best practices, and provides great examples to reinforce learnings. So far this is a great read!

Need to learn Go? Need to upskill your Go-fu capabilities? And of course, we are talking about the Go programming language and not the antique game from China. This is a comprehensive book covering all aspects of GO programming. Highlights some of the challenges, suggests tips and tricks, and offers sample. Recommend as a reference for anyone working on Go applications, or just in need of a tuneup. This will seem like a long book (600+ pages) but much of that space is taken up by the extensive coding samples.

Recomendable

Extremely well written. Starts with very basic language concepts and gets deep on Go as you keep reading. 10 of 10!

I was very disappointed with this book. In the first 10 pages I found 7 mistakes. How on earth the majority of these were missed in the editing stage and by both technical reviewers baffles me. Honestly the most stupid of mistakes like UFT-8 rather than UTF-8 right from the start is not a good first impression.

I got 180 pages into the book when I just could not handle any more of the mistakes; not just the writing but the code examples. It is an exercise in frustration having to fix the authors mistakes. At first I thought I was making mistakes but no, the code is just wrong and doesn't compile. This is not a good way to learn as a beginner to the language. Had I not come from other languages I would be extremely confused as while a reader can forgive/understand some typos in the text it is not acceptable for the code examples in a programming book to be wrong. That is literally the most fundamental part of the book to get wrong.

For a second edition it makes me feel like neither of the reviewers actually read the book and the editor must have been on holiday so just okayed it between drinks on the beach. Whatever happened it is clear that while the author clearly tried to put out a good book nobody else seems to have been much help in fixing her mistakes and improve her often quite clumsy explanations.

Also whoever was in charge of the books layout should be replaced. Their decision to break up blocks of code with a single sentence is almost criminal. I don't know if that was the authors choice (I hope not) or done in editing but if they ever do a third edition the book needs a total redesign with regards to how it presents code blocks.

I cannot stress enough to anyone thinking of picking up this book to NOT get it; rather I highly recommend Learning Go by Jon Bodner if you're a beginner to programming learning Go as your first [compiled] language, or if you're coming from another language such as JavaScript or Python to maybe get The Go Programming Language by Donovan and Kernighan.

I requested a return and refund from Amazon which they promptly did so kudos to Amazon for handling that well.

Admittedly, Samantha Coyle has done a reasonable job of trying to condense most of the intricacies Go into a massive slab of a book, it is no small feat. I also admit, it was somewhat beneficial for me as a recap of the language having not used it since late 2018 but I honestly cannot say for sure that I could not have achieved the same using the official documentation. My main gripes with the book are that for a second edition, it feels very rushed and unfinished, due to the following reasons:

* there away too many typography related errors which should have been caught during the editing process. On many occasions, these errors makes the content difficult to make sense of as the code examples becomes senseless and non-functional.

* there is a significant lack of coherence and consistency through the book and between the chapters as on several occasions references are being made to points in previous chapters that do not exist.

* some chapters reiterate points and content from chapters which are not necessarily needed for the current chapter

* there are many code "exercises" which are you are meant to copy, paste and run as teaching moment and too few actual coding exercises, or "activities". Personally I would have preferred more actual coding exercises and ideally the continued development of a product, expanding functionality as we progress through the book. Through, I do realize creating really good code examples and exercises are very difficult, Martin Fowler has admitted as much himself.

* the "professional" Section of the book is a bit superficial and I personally would expect my professional colleagues, even junior ones, to have deeper understanding of the topics in this section than what is covered here.

If the issues mentioned above had not been present and had the book been named something similar to "Foundational Go", it would have been a 5 star review instead.

Some packt publishing books can be a bit hit and miss sometimes, but this one is really well layed out. Its seems to cover everything from the basics to more advanced concepts. I really like this book. Its probably not for someone who has never programmed before but if you already know how to program and need to pick the GO language then this is a great book.