Your ultimate guide to mastering Go (Go Time #317)

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Angelica is joined by Samantha Coyle to talk about her newly published textbook: Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional. This book serves as a go-to guide to master Go for real-world software dev success covering fundamentals to advanced topics.

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Show Notes:

• Go Programming - From Beginner to Professional

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Chapters

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Ladder Life Insurance (00:00:40)

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3. Samantha Coyle (00:02:35)

4. Ready to write (00:07:25)

5. Baseline knowledge (00:12:50)

6. Book takeaways (00:14:54)

7. Favorite part (00:22:10)

8. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:26:00)

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9. Keeping it relevant (00:30:53)

10. Writing process (00:37:46)

11. Book feedback (00:44:39)

12. What's next? (00:48:30)

13. Advice for female Gophers (00:52:19)

14. Where to get the book (00:55:20)

15. Unpopular Opinions! (00:56:31)

16. Samantha's unpop (00:56:54)

17. Outro (01:01:12)