https://llcawthorne.github.io/tags/book-review/Recent content in book-review on Senior Software Engineer Learns Functional ProgrammingHugoen-usTue, 11 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0400https://llcawthorne.github.io/posts/head-first-go/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0400https://llcawthorne.github.io/posts/head-first-go/<p><img alt="Head First Go cover" loading="lazy" src="https://llcawthorne.github.io/posts/head-first-go/images/cover.jpg"></p> <p>Overall, it&rsquo;s what I expect from a Head First book. It was a perfectly serviceable introduction to the Go programming language. Although it&rsquo;s a Head First book, I feel like it treated me like an experienced programmer and didn&rsquo;t waste a lot of time explaining how an <code>if</code> expression worked. Unlike <em>Head First Kotlin</em> which never got to a lot of things that it had to toss into <em>Ten Brief Topics in the Appendix</em>, it felt like it covered all the main topics that needed to be covered to understand Go. It even includes coverage of automated testing and a couple of chapters on web apps.</p>