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Katas are fun but they are usually limited in their scope for learning a language; you're unlikely to use goroutines to solve a kata. Another problem is when you have varying levels of enthusiasm. Some people just learn way more of the language than others and when demonstrating what they have done end up confusing people with features the others are not familiar with. This ends up making the learning feel quite unstructured and ad hoc. By far the most effective way was by slowly introducing the fundamentals of the language by reading through go by example, exploring them with examples and discussing them as a group. This was a more interactive approach than "read chapter x for homework". Over time the team gained a solid foundation of the grammar of the language so we could then start to build systems. This is for people who are interested in picking up Go and/or people who already know some Go, but want to explore testing more.
Features
- Explore the Go language by writing tests
- Get a grounding with TDD
- Go is a good language for learning TDD because it is a simple language to learn and testing is built-in
- Be confident that you'll be able to start writing robust, well-tested systems in Go
- Solve some Go problems and challenges
- Explore concepts and then solidify the ideas with tests
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