Acknowledgments

What a privilege it has been to write this book and help you learn Go. Thank you for reading!

These pages represent the efforts of many individuals, not merely the authors on the cover.

First and foremost, we would like to thank our editors Jennifer Stout and Marina Michaels for providing valuable feedback and for continuing to push us little by little over the finish line. Also, thank you to Joel Kotarski and Matt Merkes for your spot-on technical editing, Christopher Haupt for technical proofing, and copyeditor Corbin Collins for improving our grammar and style. Our thanks go to Bert Bates and to series editors Dan Maharry and Elesha Hyde for the conversations and guidelines that helped shape Get Programming with Go.

We would like to thank Olga Shalakhina and Erick Zelaya for the wonderful illustrations, Monica Kamsvaag for the cover design, April Milne for sprucing up our figures, and Renée French for giving Go the lighthearted mascot that we all love. A special thank you goes to Dan Allen for creating AsciiDoctor, the tool used to write this book, and for his ongoing support.

This book wouldn’t be a reality without Marjan Bace, Matko Hrvatin, Mehmed Pasic, Rebecca Rinehart, Nicole Butterfield, Candace Gillhoolley, Ana Romac, Janet Vail, David Novak, Dottie Marsico, Melody Dolab, Elizabeth Martin, and the whole crew at Manning for getting Get Programming with Go into the hands of readers.

Thanks also to Aleksandar Dragosavljević for getting this book to reviewers, and to all the reviewers for providing valuable feedback, including Brendan Ward, Charles Kevin, Doug Sparling, Esther Tsai, Gianluigi Spagnuolo, Jeff Smith, John Guthrie, Luca Campobasso, Luis Gutierrez, Mario Carrion, Mikaël Dautrey, Nat Luengnaruemitchai, Nathan Farr, Nicholas Boers, Nicholas Land, Nitin Gode, Orlando Sánchez, Philippe Charrière, Rob Weber, Robin Percy, Steven Parr, Stuart Woodward, Tom Goodheard, Ulises Flynn, and William E. Wheeler. We’d also like to thank all the early access readers who provided feedback through the forums.

Finally, we would like to thank Michael Stephens for suggesting the crazy idea of writing a book, and the Go community for creating a language and ecosystem that we’re excited to write about!

Nathan Youngman

Naturally, I need to thank my parents, without whom I wouldn’t be here today. Both of my parents encouraged me to pursue my interest in computer programming from an early age, providing books and courses and access to computers.

In addition to the official reviewers, I would like to thank Matthias Stone for providing feedback on early drafts, and Terry Youngman for helping me brainstorm ideas. I also want to thank the Edmonton Go community for cheering me on, and my employer, Mark Madsen, for providing the flexibility to make this endeavor feasible.

More than anyone else, I want to thank Roger Peppé for coming alongside me as coauthor. He shortened the long road ahead by writing unit 7, and gave the project a much needed bump in momentum.

Roger Peppé

Most of all, I’d like to thank my wife, Carmen, for her forbearance and support as I worked on this book when we could have been out walking in the hills.

Many thanks also to Nathan Youngman and Manning for their trust in taking me on as coauthor and for their patience during the final stages of this book.