
Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects
Alienor Latour(Author)
Manning Publications (Publisher)
Published on 16. July 2025
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-1-63343-880-4 (ISBN)
Description
These small Go projects will build big Go skills! Learn hands-on as you build 11 engaging applications.
In Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects you'll create 11 small applications and tools, including:
A currency convertor application
A health tracking app
A load balancer for sharing jobs between workers in the Cloud
An HTML template
A microcontroller-based temperature monitor
...and more!
Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects teaches you to write professional-level Go code by creating handy tools and fun apps. Each small, self-contained project introduces important practical skills, including ensuring that your code is thoroughly tested and documented! You'll make architectural decisions for your projects and organize your code in a maintainable way. Everything you learn is easy to scale-up to full-size Go applications. About the technology: Go delivers the low-level power of system languages like C and Rust with developer-friendly features like garbage collection and a powerful standard library. Millions of programmers choose Go because it speeds up program construction, streamlines dependency management, and makes complex code simple to write, read, and maintain.
In Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects you'll create 11 small applications and tools, including:
A currency convertor application
A health tracking app
A load balancer for sharing jobs between workers in the Cloud
An HTML template
A microcontroller-based temperature monitor
...and more!
Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects teaches you to write professional-level Go code by creating handy tools and fun apps. Each small, self-contained project introduces important practical skills, including ensuring that your code is thoroughly tested and documented! You'll make architectural decisions for your projects and organize your code in a maintainable way. Everything you learn is easy to scale-up to full-size Go applications. About the technology: Go delivers the low-level power of system languages like C and Rust with developer-friendly features like garbage collection and a powerful standard library. Millions of programmers choose Go because it speeds up program construction, streamlines dependency management, and makes complex code simple to write, read, and maintain.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
880 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63343-880-4 (9781633438804)
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Aliénor Latour | Donia Chaiehloudj | Pascal Bertrand
Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects
E-Book
06/2025
Simon + Schuster LLC
€49.44
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Person
Alienor Latour is a back-end Golang developer with a decade of experience in various domains, from social media marketing to satellite imagery and e-commerce.
Donia Chaiehloudj is a back-end software engineer with experience developing Go distributed systems in cloud environments in aerospatial and gaming sectors.
Pascal Bertrand has been developing with Go for the past 6 years as a software engineer, in both big and small companies.
Donia Chaiehloudj is a back-end software engineer with experience developing Go distributed systems in cloud environments in aerospatial and gaming sectors.
Pascal Bertrand has been developing with Go for the past 6 years as a software engineer, in both big and small companies.