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I've written an intro to writing webapps in Go https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... Intro to python: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/build-app-with-python-antit... Both are project based

comment by thewhitetulip · 2020-02-12 · in Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?

We learn by coding That's why I wrote a book which teaches Go web dev example https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

comment by thewhitetulip · 2019-08-15 · in I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code

I've been wanting to learn Go web development without having to dive into using any of the existing frameworks, I want to be able to look at the standard docs, and only use libraries as the need makes sense, e.g. for database. So I found…

comment by giancarlostoro · 2018-12-29 · in Webapps in Go – How to write webapps without a framework

This is a touchy topic. I learnt Go programming language & writing webapps in it after reading loads of books and articles which suffered from the curse of knowledge. I'd start with the first few chapters and then would be totally…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2018-06-21 · in Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... Stopped making money for me a long time ago. I don't have a computer to update the tutorial sadly, since my macbook crashed, screen flickering after 1.5yrs. But I love the…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-08-11 · in Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

True, I am an Indian engineer living in India and have written one of the most user friendly guides to writing webapps in Go, https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... Thus, we can't just generalize.

comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-04-20 · in Countries that are reducing numbers of immigrant workers

I agree that Go makes programming simple, in a matter of less than 6months, I learned how to write a webapp in Go just by using the standard library, later, I wrote a guide to teach how to write webapps in Go without using a framework,…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-03-22 · in How I Start: Go (2014)

I got this recommended to me on HN: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

comment by laxentasken · 2017-03-07 · in Ask HN: Best book to learn webapp in go

One major issue is the lack of good easy to understand guides, shameless self promotion, I faced this issue so wrote an easy to understand guide about webdev, https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-03-06 · in Go 2016 Survey Results

I wrote a book in this light, https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... Feel free to let me know your feedback!

comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-02-23 · in Writing an Interpreter in Go: The Paperback Edition

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... You can learn how to build a todo list manager in Go. This book is about building a webapp from scratch without using a framework.

comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-02-16 · in Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

Why naive? I was a beginner 3yrs ago in web development and Go. I wanted to learn how to build a webapp (I didn't and still don't know enough JS), I didn't get lost in the big maze of angular, react. I ignored the complicated stuff, I…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-02-15 · in Google’s not-so-secret new OS

This might be helpful! Tutorial: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... YouTube series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL41psiCma00wgiTKkAZwJ...

comment by sherlockgopher · 2017-02-10 · in Go Web Examples

These might be helpful Tutorial: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... YouTube series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL41psiCma00wgiTKkAZwJ...

comment by sherlockgopher · 2017-02-10 · in Go Web Examples

I found this to be a good source, https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

comment by sherlockgopher · 2017-02-10 · in Go Web Examples

…my app: http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks/ I also wrote a tutorial for newcomers like me: http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook...

comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-02-05 · in The State of Go

Github repo at https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-02-04 · in An easy introduction to writing webapps in Go

It serves as a great reference, the code in there runs with small changes, I know this because I ran the code myself when I was contemplating adding content from this book to my own FOSS ebook ( https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-gola…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-02-04 · in Network programming with Go (2012)

I found this to be helpful for learning basics of web development, https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

comment by sherlockgopher · 2017-01-16 · in Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?

> with minimal understanding of what they're really doing In my opinion, this is very dangerous. It is always better to understand the inner workings and then write an app, otherwise you just feel you have accomplished something when, in…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-01-13 · in Buffalo – MVC Web Framework for Go

I've written a tutorial on writing webapps without using a framework! https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... PDF: https://leanpub.com/antitextbookGo

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-12-24 · in Writing web applications using only the Go Standard Library

Thank you. The tutorial is here, https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... I have received a lot of +ve feedback from readers, the tutorial is focused on newcomers to webdev in Go, teaches everything from scratch…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-12-19 · in Ask HN: Is it amoral to start charging for PDF of a previously free tutorial?

…encouraged by folks on HN I published my tutorial on writing webapps with Go without a framework, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook There isn't much income because I want the book to be free, I'm writing another…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-12-11 · in Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

Yes, I know. This is a painful process and it isn't just painful because of the UI, there is a reason why Github became so popular, the founders started working to create a webapp to democratize FOSS. Because they said that earlier when…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-12-07 · in Why I contribute to Chromium

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... I have written a very basic introduction to writing webapps in Go without using a framework, as others have rightly pointed out, we really do not need to use a framework in Go…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-12-06 · in Mux – A lightweight, fast HTTP request router for Go

I live in India, have written a tutorial on Go, https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... , am decent with Go, am learning Vue.js, writing book on it as well, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs/ . I am a…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-12-02 · in My Google Internship

I've written an introductory book on Go http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook , it taught hoe to write a webapp in Go without using a framework. Earlier, it taught basic html, now I am rewriting the Tasks app,…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-11-26 · in Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

…isn't a free resource to teach what I learned, so I tried to share my knowledge by creating this, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook... . The first post I made was to /r/golang: I got immensely +ve feedback,…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-11-26 · in Deleting the golang subreddit

>do you accurately comment the code you write for fun Mostly, yes. But not when I am learning stuff, for eg, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks is a small app I built, there are next to no comments there because I was learning the…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-11-15 · in Ask HN: Why are FOSS projects beginner unfriendly?

…everything, eventually you'll get a hang of it. It is not a barrier, you might like the intro book: http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook... and https://github.com/astaxie/build-web-application-with-golang...

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-11-10 · in Seven years of Go

Author here, since links aren't clickable in the description: Leanpub link: https://leanpub.com/antitextbookGo/ Github link: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-10-10 · in Show HN: Write webapps in Go without framework [updated]

This article has been a pivotal point in my life. It was years ago when I read this that I started looking out "how to develop a webapp without a framework", my journey took me to Django, RoR, node and finally to Go. I did learn on my own…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-10-05 · in Why I hate frameworks (2005)

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... This is a simple, example based introductory book for teaching newbies how to write webapps in Go. I have added the tags to the issue. http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks/…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-10-03 · in Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)

Well, I am not sure I can use it, since it is a book :-) https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... Also I am not in US.

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-09-20 · in Api.ai is joining Google

no, it depends which language you use, but each allows you to 'listen' on an ip address and a port. The point is that the most commonly used IP is 127.0.0.1 but we can as well use 127.120.99.12 because the entire subnet is the loopback…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-09-01 · in How to steal a developer's local database

This is a very small project which has got few stars on github. http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook... license is CC Aim is to be the best practical introduction for writing webapplications in Go language. Skills:…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-09-01 · in Ask HN: Who needs contributors?

I think this will interest you, https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... It's an introductory book for learning how to write webapps without a framework. another book: https://github.com/astaxie/build-web-application-…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-08-16 · in Go 1.7 is released

you would like my book, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook . I had the exact same problems when I started out with Go, so I wrote this small guide, it helps because it teaches with an example ToDo app

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-07-09 · in Ask HN: Ruby on Rails vs Go – What would you suggest to a newbie webdev? why?

…my application product or startup) I even wrote a short tutorial about writing webapps in golang: http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook... all thanks to vscode + go plugin

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-04-14 · in Visual Studio Code 1.0

…using Go plugin in vscode and today I have built go apps and written partially completed book: http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook... i tried giving vi a chance, but nope. couldn't bear it for more than a day,…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-04-14 · in Visual Studio Code 1.0

…but after switching to vscode and the go plugin I learned go webdev and wrote this small intro book, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook... That is the power of vscode, it provided a good enough way to play with…

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-04-14 · in Visual Studio Code 1.0

meanwhile I started to write my own little book on webapps with Go: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-03-28 · in Building Web Apps in Go

I had recently started to write a short guide about writing webapps in Go, https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

comment by thewhitetulip · 2016-03-04 · in Go by Example