web-dev-golang-anti-textbook

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 this e-book through a list of e-books. I figure someone else out there might be interested in the same. GitHub for book: https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

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 clueless. I figured out that the curse of knowledge is huge. Once you learn how to write webapps they become trivial and that's the reason why few books written by "experts" targetting newbies are utterly of no use. But of course that doesn't absolve the tutorial creator from her responsibility of writing a decent tutorial and with the advent of Github it has become a collaborative effort! It is a sad thing that masters write books for beginners. No, a beginner shouldn't be taught how to use the stdlib, they don't understand half of the things (prose) mentioned in the book. Lead by examples, show that it is not