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"Go Faster" is done 🚀

A story about the process.

Ollie
Feb 18
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"Go Faster" is done 🚀

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It’s published, it’s complete. “Go Faster” is done!

The book captures all my training notes, and, the extras I’ve learned since, such as Generics.

At 211 pages, 48,000+ words and 147 code examples it’s been quite a work.

Other statistics, that may be interesting to would-be publishers, especially those going via LeanPub:

  • I’ve published the book over 13 times.

  • I’ve previewed the PDF book myself, 68 times. I find it easier to review.

  • I wish I had tracked hours of writing, but I didn’t. Plenty I think. I started late November - not full-time on it, but definitely more than a spare-time effort.

  • The download is just over 1MB.

  • Unicode doesn’t work in the PDF book.

  • So, far I’ve sold 31 copies. All self-promotion, which I’m not great at.

  • The examples repository on GitHub is free. There are 147 examples to clone/fork and mess with. That was a lot of work to make it indexable.

  • Publishing as an NFT has been mentioned, but I’m not sure how to make the book unique yet. Will think.

  • Printing a hard copy with an ISBN is also an option. Per unit, the cost is expensive for realistic production sizes.

  • You can NOT see your own mistakes. Never. Not ever.

  • The most enjoyable part to write was the section on Generics. I was learning too.

  • The least enjoyable part to write was the last chapter, 11. Very few code examples, mostly rhetoric, and I could see the finish line. Plus, who really likes testing and stuff, we’re makers ;)

I encourage you to go and check out the book. It’s a direct learning style, which follows a good flow IMO. The examples are stripped of most noise. If I was to teach or learn Go again, that is the structure I’d follow.

You can find it on LeanPub here.

Thanks for reading & best wishes,

Ollie

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