| # New Talk and Tutorials | |
| 5 May 2010 | |
| Summary: More materials for learning about Go: one talk, one codelab, and one screencast. | |
| Andrew Gerrand | |
| ## | |
| Rob Pike recently gave a talk at Stanford's [Computer Systems Colloquium](http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/) (EE380). | |
| Titled [_Another Go at Language Design_](http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428.html), | |
| the presentation gives an overview of the itches Go was built to scratch, | |
| and how Go addresses those problems. | |
| You can view [a video stream of the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VcArS4Wpqk), | |
| and [download the slides](http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428-pike-stanford.pdf). | |
| Last week's release included a code lab, [Writing Web Applications](https://golang.org/doc/codelab/wiki/), | |
| 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 [Go Packages screen cast](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDWBJOXs_iI) | |
| 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 [gocoding YouTube channel](http://youtube.com/gocoding) in the near future. |