Education Articles and Tutorials

Today, on day 14, I created a custom method to remove code duplication creeping into the weather station codebase. Come read the fun story behind getting that done.

Here we are on day 13. Today, I continued learning Golang by working on the Golang version of my PHP/Python weather station, adding a function to render static pages. Let me share my learnings with you.

Here we are on day 12. I didn’t solve anything. I’m feeling that these exercises are becoming arbitrary and pointless.

Here we are on day 11, where I solved the Stringers Exercise.

Here we are on day 10. Today I read about and played with Type Assertions, Type Switches, and Stringers in Go.

Here we are on day 9. Today, I dove down a proverbial rabbit hole. While intending to learn more about Go’s Empty Interface, I ended up reading about Abductive and Deductive reasoning, and Duck, structured, and nominal typing.

Here we are on day 8. Today, I started learning about methods, pointer receivers, and interfaces.

Here we are on day 7. Today, I started learning about closures!

Here we are on day 6 – the start of the week two. Today, was a slower day, where I focused on one topic, maps!

Here we are on day 5 – the end of the first week. Today, I solved the Slices exercise!

Here I am at day 4. Today, I learned about the range function and started the slices exercise…​but got stuck.

Today was a slightly slower day for learning Go than was yesterday. However, I learned about flow control statements, and defer, panic, and recover.

For the longest time, I’ve been meaning to learn another software development language in-depth, in addition to my primary development language, PHP. I’ve decided that the language is Go.