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web-dev-golang-anti-textbook
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thewhitetulip / web-dev-golang-anti-textbook

web-dev-golang-anti-textbook

Learn how to write webapps without a framework in Go.

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Learn how to write webapps without a framework in Go.

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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…

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thewhitetulip·Dec 19, 2016Submission

Ask HN: Is it amoral to start charging for PDF of a previously free tutorial?

One year ago, I have written a FOSS tutorial on writing webapps on Go and published it via Leanpub using pay what you want model, the gitbooks version gets 1.5k readers each month ~50 unique per day and 1k downloads per month. only 4-5 users have paid $ via leanpub, I was thinking of removing the pdf version from gitbooks and making leanpub version as paid only. Is it amoral to start charging $ for PDF version? the source is FOSS on github and always will be OSS. edit: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook/ is the link.
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thewhitetulip·Dec 7, 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 you contributed to FOSS you'd have to send the diff and the merge person would not be able to merge everything so only those who knew them would get their PRs merged, when we add in a nice "merge pull request" button in a nice UI, it becomes simple. Yes, I am used to Github, but that's not the total point, I never log out of github, it is the only webapp which I am 24x7 logged into (in my browser of course). Every other webapp I logout. That's why it is no hassle to report issues on Github. Also I have very very limited amount of personal time if you remove office and commute, in one year, I have learned
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how to write webapps in Go and written a tutorial on it, I did this while handling my <1yr nephew and having only 2hrs daily and 6-7hrs on weekends (https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...). There are many constraints & I have very limited time, thus github is a convenience, not that I like github's issue tracker, I wrote a todo manager for myself and I rarely use Github's tools for tracking things which I build.
In Why I contribute to Chromium
thewhitetulip·Nov 26, 2016
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, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks/, to use the front end framework http://vuejs.org, using the learning of my experiment, I'm putting together anther series of tutorials, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs. Thid is because I wanted an easy to understand tutorial which doesn't expect the user to have anything more than basic html/css/js knowledge. edit: links
In Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?
thewhitetulip·Nov 26, 2016
Yes, /r/golang is way more friendlier than go-nuts. I say this by proof. 1. One year ago I started learning Go. It was difficult to understand it, I read a lot of books and stuff. I started working on http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks, Later, I realised that there 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, suggestions etc. The second post I made was that google group, I was told "The language is called Go and not Golang" and the condensed feedback from the elites was (after someone rallied behind me saying that give real feedback and this is being jerk and blah blah) that "it might be the case that suraj wrote a good book but people won't take it s
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eriously until the language name is corectly used" Who cares about the title of the book? I certainly don't. I have read astaxie's book, codegansta's book, both had golang in their title. Their content was amazing. I loved them, didn't care about the title The links are below As another instance, I wanted help in AJAX one year ago, I asked /r/golang, I got two examples in half hour, one with plain JS another with jquery. Do you really think that if /r/golang was so "toxic" and "scum" as they call it on the go-nuts mailing list (a glaring violation of the CoC shoved down our throats) that there would be a consensus among /r/golang to unequivocally say "if Go authors don't participate in /r/golang then they are welcome to step down?" I do not understand what they want to do, Guido created python, is he the mod of /r/python, does he care what authors name their book? "oh the language is Python with a capital P", no, he does what he does and let's the community handle the community. my exp with /r/golang https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5dkobc/sample_webap... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/56mgxb/learn_how_to... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/50ih0s/whats_up_wit... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4zyjye/network_prog... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4kbup2/can_webapps_... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4jxtdg/building_an_... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4jaiun/updated_my_t... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4ihjk7/added_sessio... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/46vb6x/want_to_disc... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/45uqpw/updated_my_t... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/439asd/simple_comma... https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/3zle8c/i_am_writing... The fact that I do not have a single (+ve) link on go-nuts speaks volumes about which forum is toxic. Just read this thread which I started on go-nuts https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/F4LJwyYZcX... And tell me later which community is helpful.
In Deleting the golang subreddit
thewhitetulip·Nov 15, 2016
>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 language and thus didn't write much comments there. I understand docs are pain to maintain, but a good FOSS project which is coding related (like a code library) is an amalgamation of the code AND the docs. The first preference goes to the lib with a great documentation. >not as rewarding as aligning correct lines of codes Yes, but when we look at the reward incorrectly! Yes, nobody will hail your contribution, but the fact that the project will be hailed because of the docs is not thought about mostly. >but chances are they will ask trivial question that do not concern the project This might not be a gross m
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isrepresentation, but yes, sometimes there will be audience who doesn't fit in your project's audience, but what about the audience who fits? I recently started learning a front end framework, I am totally new to a front end framework, I do not like frameworks, I learned and wrote a book on Go without using framework (https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...). The docs are awesome of the project, I mean it. They teach the basics of the framework but _not_ how to use it in an actual project. Yes, if I know how to bind a variable via the docs it is great, but I do not know how to build a single page app just by reading how to bind a variable. It is a pre-requisite though. For a framework which wants to be the top framework, I feel that there needs to be docs not just about the APIs but also about how to use it in a real project. P.S: In the past, while commenting partially negatively about something, a person had taken huge efforts to crawl back on my HN/reddit comment history and calling out the names, I am intentionally leaving the name out of the comment; This is a general thing across all projects, not just the one I am complaining about.
In Ask HN: Why are FOSS projects beginner unfriendly?
thewhitetulip·Oct 5, 2016
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 by reading a few books and countless videos about how to write a webapp without a framework. The result was that I wrote an introductory book for my own reference, the link is here. https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... I do not know the author, but I would like to thank him/her, it is because of their article that I went on to learn Go. Thank You!!
In Why I hate frameworks (2005)
thewhitetulip·Oct 3, 2016
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/ This is a simplistic todo list manager written in Go. Tags have been added to the issues. Tasks is MIT licensed and the book is CC licensed Any and all help is appreciated, feel free to reach me via email any time, I would respond as soon as possible. Email is in my github page.
In Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)

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