My Path Studing Golang

My Approach

Go is not my first language so i decided to take diffrent approach to learning go and avoid mistakes I made with other languages.

• I do not follow tutorials unless I get stack and can't find solution in documentation. After I unstack I immediately drop tutorial and get back to coding
• I do not use LLMs for code generation. I've used ai only to brainstorm ideas or make sure I understand concepts

Reason for avoiding both generated code and tutorial is similar - by using LLM or tutorials I tend to turn off critical thinking and basically I outsource learning nad thinking. Which might be good for short term but really damaging for long term career.

Techonologies explored

• Go
  • Gin
  • Gorilla
• Sql
  • Sqlite
  • Postgres
• AWS
  • AWS Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • EventBrige
  • S3
  • ECR
• Docker
• JavaScript
• HTML/CSS

Projects

Most projects here are just demos, because I used them just to explore technologies or to better understand how to work with them. I try now to use this knowledge, for something bigger and actually finish it e.g. here:

• Currency Newsletter

GoCrawler

• After learning basic syntax in TourOfGo I wanted to write code so I jumped into recreating things from my collage. So this is basic web crawler I've done in C# previously. It enters website and looks for all emails on page

UniSys

• Again exercise from my C# course in collage. Program takes csv as an input, clean it and return in json format. It helped me play around with files and become more confident with syntax

moviesServer

• App with server managing movies. I just wanted to learn gorilla framework

RestDemo

• Rest api app. I wanted to create rest api server that will work with database. I used strategy pattern to create dependency injection of repository. I can inject csv_repository or postgres_repository and with changing one line of code change behavior

TemplatesDemo

• It is simple demo that i used to learn about go templates and html

Form

• App that gives form to fill and send it to backend. I continued learning working with html/css/javascript and go templates

TodoApp

• Just another to do app, but I just wanted to test and use all skills I learned and do not use any tutorial. I've used there net/http, postgres, templates

LambdaTest

• I started learning AWS Lambda, additionally I started learning docker and now it is pretty natural for me similar to git

ConnectToS3

• I've learned reading and writing to file stored on aws S3

StaticWebsite

• I wanted to test hosting static website on aws S3 for my other project. Additionally i managed to send request from HTML and javascript to aws lambda go backend, and communicate between those two. PS turned out I did not care about CORS because aws allows seemless communication between lambda and S3