This page lists a few resources for programmers interested in learning about the Go language.

Books

A selection of books about Go.

• The Go Programming Language by Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan
• Go in Action by Brian Ketelsen, Erik St. Martin, and William Kennedy
• Programming in Go by Mark Summerfield
• Learning Go by Miek Gieben (nearing completion)
• More books, http://go-lang.cat-v.org/books

Installing Go and configuring your workspace

Start here to learn how to set up a workspace to write Go code.

• How to Write Go Code
• Writing, building, installing, and testing Go code
• Five suggestions for setting up a Go project
  

Editors and IDEs

• Sublime Text via the GoSublime plugin.
• Vim via the go-vim plugln.
• GoLand from Jetbrains, the makers of IDEA.
• An incomplete list of Go tools.
• and more from the Go Community Wiki.

Online resources

Once you’ve got your environment set up, here are some excellent resources to learn Go.

• The Go programming language tour
• The Go Bootcamp Book, everything you need to know to get started with Go, by Matt Aimonetti.
• Go by example
• Effective Go
• The Go language FAQ
• The Go style guide
• Damian Gryski’s Gophervids is an aggregator for recordings of Go meetups and conferences.
• Going Go Programming by William Kennedy
• An incomplete list of Go tools by Dominik Honnef
• Go Koans

Podcasts

• Go Time with Brian Ketelsen, Carlisia Pinto, and Erik St. Martin.
• JustForFunc with Francesc Campoy.

Tutorials

• Writing table driven tests in Go
• Writing benchmarks in Go
• Learn X in Y minutes (where X == Go) by Sonia Keys
• Cross compilation with Go
• Tutorial: Go (Golang) Pointers in 5 Minutes

Dependency management

• dep
• gb, a project based build tool for Go

Presentations

Here is a selection of presentations about Go targeted at those wanting to learn about the language.

• Getting started with Go, by Andrew Gerrand.
• A tour of Go, by Russ Cox.
• Go at Google, Rob Pike, SPLASH 2012.
• Organising Go code by David Crawshaw
• Naming by Andrew Gerrand
• Testing techniques by Andrew Gerrand
• More presentations, talks.golang.org and the community wiki.

Community resources

Interact with the Go programming community.

• The Go Forum.
• #go-nuts IRC channel at Freenode. For the truly curious the channel is logged by botbot.me.
• Gophers’ community on Slack
• #golang on Twitter.
• Go user groups and meetups.
• golang-nuts mailing list. This is a high volume list. You may find it more rewarding to interact with the group via email, rather than the Google Groups web interface.
• Gopher Academy.
• Go questions on Stackoverflow.
• Godoc.org.
• The Go Programming Language Blog.
• Go community Wiki.