This is how I learned, I stopped doing the TDD after a while but still a good resource.
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If you already know at least one programming language, you might start with the official Tour of Go. I appreciate its succinct simplicity. Along with a few official blog posts and the standard library docs, it was enough to get me writing useful code.
https://go.dev/blog/slices
https://go.dev/blog/strings
(To be fair, I've been programming for quite a while. Someone unfamiliar with the concepts that Go uses might need a more substantial tutorial.)
I'd add the language specification. It is well written and Go is a relatively small language so the spec is not difficult to digest:
And pretty much everything from the official documentation page is a good read:
Fair enough. I didn't recommend those because:
The spec is far more detailed than necessary to get started with the language. Having to slog through it just to get the basics would have put me off, so I was relieved to find the Tour.
While the documentation page's articles might be useful, I was disappointed with their writing. As an experienced programmer, I found the ones I read immensely boring and disrespectful of my time, because they have a lot of plodding verbiage explaining already-familiar concepts and often restating sentences from just one or two lines earlier. Meanwhile, other ideas are illustrated using (for example) C pointer syntax instead of explaining, which is clear to me, but would likely frustrate someone unfamiliar with that syntax. The authors seem unable to decide who their target audience is.