New Talk and Tutorials
5 May 2010

Andrew Gerrand

* Introduction

Rob Pike recently gave a talk at Stanford's [[http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/][Computer Systems Colloquium]] (EE380).
Titled [[http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428.html][_Another_Go_at_Language_Design_]],
the presentation gives an overview of the itches Go was built to scratch,
and how Go addresses those problems.
You can view [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VcArS4Wpqk][a video stream of the talk]],
and [[http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428-pike-stanford.pdf][download the slides]].

Last week's release included a code lab, [[https://golang.org/doc/codelab/wiki/][Writing Web Applications]],
that details the construction of a simple wiki program.
It is a practical introduction to some fundamental Go concepts,
and the first of a series of Go code labs.

Lastly, we are often asked "How do Go packages work?" It's easier to show than to explain,
so I put together a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDWBJOXs_iI][Go Packages screen cast]]
that demonstrates the process of writing,
building, installing, and redistributing Go packages.
I hope to post more of these covering a variety of Go programming topics
to the [[http://youtube.com/gocoding][gocoding YouTube channel]] in the near future.