learning-go-book-examples

📘 Learning Go Book – Developer Journey

Welcome to the official walkthrough of my Go language journey based on the book “Learning Go”. This GitHub repository is not just a code archive — it’s a living, evolving guide to help learners and engineers understand Go fundamentals through clean, structured, and automated examples.

🚀 Why This Project?

I built this project to:

Learn Go deeply, not just syntactically but idiomatically
Practice clean architecture, tooling, and automation
Document each chapter with professional standards
Inspire other developers transitioning into Go from .NET or other ecosystems

📚 Chapter Index

Chapter	Title	Description	Status
1	Setting Up Your Environment	Install Go, CLI tools, Makefile, IDE setup	✅
2	Data Types and Flow Control	Learn variables, types, loops, if/switch	🚧
3	Collections	Arrays, slices, maps, and iteration patterns	🚧
…	…	…	❌

✅ Completed 🚧 In Progress ❌ Not Started

🛠 Key Features

🧱 Modular folder-per-chapter structure
⚙ Automated builds using Makefile
✅ Code formatted and vetted using go fmt and go vet
🔁 CI-ready with GitHub Actions workflows
🌐 Hosted via GitHub Pages for easy access

📦 Repository Structure

learning-go-book-examples/
├── ch1/                  # Chapter 1: Go Setup
├── ch2/                  # Chapter 2: Data Types (WIP)
├── assets/               # Diagrams, badges, and shared media
├── .github/workflows/    # CI Definitions
├── docs/                 # GitHub Pages content
└── README.md             # Project overview

📌 Technologies Used

Go 1.22+
GNU Make
GitHub Actions
VS Code & GoLand
Markdown + GitHub Pages

🙌 How to Contribute or Fork

If you’re learning Go too, feel free to:

Fork this repo
Update a chapter with your own exercises
Open a pull request or share your link with me on learningdiary.me

🔗 External Resources

🚀 “Learning is not passive – it’s a build-and-break journey.”