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 (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-17T01:21:34.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-23T07:59:32.618Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: TeX
• Size: 617 KB
• Stars: 2,171
• Watchers: 74
• Forks: 266
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md

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README

        
## About ##

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

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

* [Learning Zig](https://www.openmymind.net/learning_zig/)

* [Elixir, A Little Beyond The Basics](https://www.openmymind.net/Elixir-A-Little-Beyond-The-Basics/)

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

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

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

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

## License ##

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

## Translations ##

* [Portuguese](https://github.com/igorverse/the-little-go-book/tree/master/pt-br) (in progress) by Fabrício Soares and Igor

* [Spanish](https://raulexposito.com/the-little-go-book-en-castellano.html) 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](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) and converted to PDF using [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org).

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

Kindle and ePub format provided using [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org).

## 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 [Kindle Previewer](https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Previewer/b?node=21381691011) installed too.

#### Building

Run `make en/go.mobi`.

## Title Image ##

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