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Code snippets produce errors; this book is out-of-date.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.

Well-written and a good balance between fundamentals and how to apply them. I am new to Go, but not new to programming. This book provided me with a solid foundation for exploring more advanced concepts and design patterns

I'm only a hobbyist programmer who's transitioning from Python to Go. This book fills the gap in the market for people like me. Who have a basic understanding of programming & like things explaining in a little more detail that's easier to understand .

One thing I should point out is I'm dyslexic & have found the format used in this book excellent, definitely easier to understand than most programming books I have read.

In short the authors have done a great job in writing this book.

This text is not an in depth treatise on Go insides... I guess it's quite difficult to acquire such knowledge only from reading no matter we are talking about Go or any other language, When it comes to learning a new programming language I'd rather get the basics from a guide fun to read and that helps you go over the principles, how to code general control flow expressions, conditionals and that kind of stuff, helps you with the use of basic types and more elaborate data structures.... perhaps you already know the ropes about them and get to use them in other languages... so it is not so important a theoretical treatise on them but it's really helpful some kind of help to kickstart you in order to get your hands dirty with the new language...

This book is so helpful in this regard, great investment. It features some funny examples and exercises so you do not lose interest as you move on... on top of this you will be able to proceed without installing nothing on your laptop as examples can be coded on Go Playground or another kind of online IDE...

In last few weeks I've going through "The Go programming Language" (by Donovan and Kernighan) great book ... It goes further than the present "Get programming with go" but it gets muddy at some points perhaps due to the depth of coverage it intends... some times is better let developers get deeper knowledge by mean of practice rather than explanations... it makes me feel "Get programming..." has achieved a balance difficult to match... great investment indeed

For those that have some knowledges in computer programming. Very clear, didactic. A must have book to learn Go.

Hat mir beim Einstieg geholfen (erfahren in C, Java), geht aber auch nicht sehr weit. Angenehm geschrieben, aber im Grunde habe ich mich keine 6 Stunden damit beschäftigt.