Ask HN: What would you like to see in the Golang course?
I'm working on a training course (text/video) devoted to Golang. Curious if there are any (advanced?) topics, which would definitely be worth to add to the course. Any ideas/recommendations?
a) Databases. What's the right way to work with them in Golang?
b) Suppose you're building an API which has some shared state. (Like, I don't know, a stock exchange's order book or something, to pick an example randomly.) What's the best way to model that such that you can access it concurrently in an arbitrary number of simultaneous HTTP requests?
c) Supposing that one understands goroutines at a Golang 101 level, where does one go from there? I ended up having lots of fun on e.g. fanning out data incoming from N sources to one channel back out to M consumers which each need a copy of everything on that channel. This felt excessively painful to me. How do I do it in a way which is not excessively painful?
APIs - very good point. Thanks. I haven't thought about it, but will definitely add an APIs chapter.
As for the c), this one probably requires picking some good use case with further implementation/explanation. Thanks for the food for thought.
Database examples need to provide instructions for getting to a working configuration, testing with a different database, etc.
honestly go look at Stack overflow and see where people get stuck.
how to port a ruby, python or java code to golang would be useful.
there are libraries like gox, but I would like a good tutorial to cross platform applications.
personally I would like to learn to build gui apps, android apps in go.
gui - this is an interesting one. Thanks! I'll try to cover it.
+1. I would love to see "Golang for X dev" series of tutorials