July 01, 2021

Pop quiz time! 😱

1 hour 2 minutes

Learning Go with code pop quizzes is a fun way to zoom in on different language features. People are looking forward to pop quizzes on Twitter and in conferences, and they also learn from that. Let’s chat about pop quizzes!

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Featuring:

Dave Cheney – Website, GitHub, X
Miki Tebeka – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

TennTenn’s hardest quiz

Book: Java Puzzlers

Miki’s “Brain Teasers in Go” book (with a foreword by Dave Cheney)

Choose boring tech

Reddit CTO: Stick to Boring Tech when Building Your Startup

Julia Evans

Light reading on Go’s specs

Strings in Go

Unicode in Go

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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