Talk: DevFest Hamburg 2022 Workshop Recap

I led a beginner Go workshop at DevFest Hamburg 2022. About three hours, from zero to a working HTTP server.

Setup

Participants could run Go locally, in the Go Playground, or via the Go Docker image.

What we covered

First 45 minutes —> the basics: constants, variables, loops, conditions, types, functions, and package management.

Second 45 minutes —> zero values, pointers, arrays, slices, maps, structs, defer, and concurrency.

Final session — hands-on with Go modules and the Go tool. Participants built their first applications, from “Hello World” to a simple HTTP server, and wrote tests.

Resources

A few things I recommended for anyone who wanted to keep going:

• Dave Cheney’s blog
• The official Go tour
• Go by Example

All workshop materials are on GitHub. Thanks to everyone who came.