https://github.com/karlseguin/the-little-go-book

https://github.com/karlseguin/the-little-go-book

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/karlseguin/the-little-go-book
• Owner: karlseguin
• Created: 2014-10-12T01:23:47.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-11-02T11:10:44.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-15T12:16:03.988Z (2 months ago)
• Language: TeX
• Size: 499 KB
• Stars: 2,108
• Watchers: 75
• Forks: 259
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md

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• go-awesome - The Little Go Book - little-go-book_ZH_CN) (文档 / 组织)
• awesome-stars - the-little-go-book - (TeX)
• my-awesome-stars - karlseguin/the-little-go-book - (TeX)
• starred-awesome - the-little-go-book - (TeX)
• go-awesome - The Little Go Book - little-go-book_ZH_CN ) (Documentation / To Organize)
• awesome-stars - karlseguin/the-little-go-book - (TeX)
• go-awesome - The Little Go Book - little-go-book_ZH_CN) (文档)

README

        
## About ##

[The Little Go Book](http://openmymind.net/The-Little-Go-Book/) is a free book introducing Go.

The book was written by [Karl Seguin](http://openmymind.net), author of:

* [Scaling Viki](http://openmymind.net/scaling-viki/)

* [The Little Redis Book](http://openmymind.net/2012/1/23/The-Little-Redis-Book/)

* [The Little MongoDB Book](http://openmymind.net/2011/3/28/The-Little-MongoDB-Book/)

* [Foundations of Programming](http://openmymind.net/FoundationsOfProgramming.pdf)

## License ##

The book is freely distributed under the  [Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International]().

## Translations ##

* [Spanish](https://github.com/raulexposito/the-little-go-book/tree/master/es) by Raúl Expósito

* [Chinese](https://github.com/songleo/the-little-go-book_ZH_CN) by Songleo

* [Traditional Chinese](https://github.com/kevingo/the-little-go-book) by KevinGo

* [Vietnamese](https://github.com/quangnh89/the-little-go-book/blob/master/vi/readme.md) by Quang Nguyễn

* [Italian](https://github.com/francescomalatesta/the-little-go-book-ita) by Francesco Malatesta

* [Russian](https://github.com/sefus/the-little-go-book/blob/master/ru/go.md) by Roman Dolgopolov

* [German](https://github.com/Aaronmacaron/the-little-go-book-de/blob/master/de/go.md) (15% done) by Aaron

* [Amharic](https://github.com/codeethiopia/the-little-go-book-amharic) by codeethiopia

* [Korean](https://github.com/shoebillk/the-little-go-book/blob/master/ko/go.md) by Byounghoon Kim

* [Burmese](https://github.com/nainglinaung/the-little-go-book/blob/master/mm/go.md) By Naing Lin Aung

* [Turkish](https://github.com/umutphp/the-little-go-book) By Umut Işık

## Formats ##

The book is written in [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) and converted to PDF using [Pandoc](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/).

The TeX template makes use of Lena Herrmann's JavaScript highlighter.

Kindle and ePub format provided using [Pandoc](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/).

## Generating books ##

Packages listed below are for Ubuntu. If you use another OS or distribution names would be similar.

### PDF

#### Dependencies

Packages:

* `pandoc`

* `texlive-xetex`

* `texlive-latex-extra`

* `texlive-latex-recommended`

You should have [some fonts](https://github.com/karlseguin/the-little-redis-book/blob/master/common/pdf-template.tex#L11) installed too.

Or you could change them to other ones if you want. Consider that fonts could cause [building troubles](https://github.com/karlseguin/the-little-redis-book/issues/26).

#### Building

Run `make en/go.pdf`.

### ePub

#### Dependencies

Packages:

* `pandoc`

#### Building

Run `make en/go.epub`.

### Mobi

#### Dependencies

Packages:

* `pandoc`

You should have [KindleGen](http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000765211) installed too.

#### Building

Run `make en/go.mobi`.

## Title Image ##

A PSD of the title image is included. The font used is [Comfortaa](http://www.dafont.com/comfortaa.font).