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About
The Little Go Book is a free book introducing Go.
The book was written by Karl Seguin, author of:
- Learning Zig
- Elixir, A Little Beyond The Basics
- Scaling Viki
- The Little Redis Book
- The Little MongoDB Book
- Foundations of Programming
License
The book is freely distributed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
Translations
- Portuguese (in progress) by Fabrício Soares and Igor
- Spanish by Raúl Expósito
- Chinese by Songleo
- Traditional Chinese by KevinGo
- Vietnamese by Quang Nguyễn
- Italian by Francesco Malatesta
- Russian by Roman Dolgopolov
- German (15% done) by Aaron
- Amharic by codeethiopia
- Korean by Byounghoon Kim
- Burmese By Naing Lin Aung
- Turkish By Umut Işık
Formats
The book is written in Markdown and converted to PDF using Pandoc.
The TeX template makes use of Lena Herrmann's JavaScript highlighter.
Kindle and ePub format provided using Pandoc.
Generating books
Packages listed below are for Ubuntu. If you use another OS or distribution names would be similar.
Dependencies
Packages:
pandoctexlive-xetextexlive-latex-extratexlive-latex-recommended
You should have some fonts installed too. Or you could change them to other ones if you want. Consider that fonts could cause building troubles.
Building
Run make en/go.pdf.
ePub
Dependencies
Packages:
pandoc
Building
Run make en/go.epub.
Mobi
Dependencies
Packages:
pandoc
You should have Kindle Previewer installed too.
Building
Run make en/go.mobi.
Title Image
A PSD of the title image is included. The font used is Comfortaa.