Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea

Posted by aforarnold on Saturday May 30, 2015 @06:41AM
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I am trying to learn golang for almost one year. Went through the docs, completed https://tour.golang.org/ and watched few talks. Now I want to get my Go knowledge in real working code via weekend project. No specific preference, just to let you know I am fluent in Python and working as a backend developer in day job.

Thanks in advance.

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Re:Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea by mattkrea on Saturday May 30, 2015 @07:33AM (#9629813)

Disclaimer: These sites have never worked for me.

Here are a couple places to look: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/2a9ygh/10...

I find that a random idea from a stranger doesn't always give me enough inspiration to move forward or follow through. Instead, try to think about something that you want to solve for yourself. Maybe a CLI tool that could help you out or something similar.

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Re:Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea by papaf on Saturday May 30, 2015 @09:49AM (#9630156)

Nearly all webmail UIs are written using PHP. Given that 78% of PHP installs include at least one vulnerability [1] it would be good to have a webmail UI written in some other language.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/31/want_to_have_your_se...

Edit: This is not a dig at PHP, I would not want to install it on one of my servers because I do not know what I am doing.

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Re:Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea by falcolas on Saturday May 30, 2015 @09:33AM (#9630107)

https://github.com/kanaka/mal

This is more than a weekend's worth of work, but the work is incremental, so you will see benefits from point 0. This was a lot of fun for me, and it helped shine light on some of the darker corners of Go.

I'm still working on a version of it myself, using it to experiment with different coding styles, interfaces, and libraries. A lot of fun.

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Re:Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea by papaf on Saturday May 30, 2015 @09:53AM (#9630172)

This is more than a weekend's worth of work

I usually think of weekend projects as something done over many weekends - I can't manage much in a single weekend.

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Re:Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea by scrollaway on Saturday May 30, 2015 @12:41PM (#9630702)

I'm currently in the same situation as you - Python dev learning Go. If you're familiar with Hearthstone, I'm currently working on a server for it, involves protobufs. If you think that's cool, let me know (contact through my website on my profile)

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Re:Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea by snehesht on Saturday May 30, 2015 @07:57AM (#9629870)

Simple, try to port your favorite python library to go.Read in python and Write in go

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Re:Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea by asterfield on Saturday May 30, 2015 @08:56AM (#9630016)

I found that writing an SQL query generation framework in PHP was fun. Try the same for Go? An HTTP proxy is also quite easy to do in Go, and again quite fun.

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Re:Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea by crlane on Saturday May 30, 2015 @09:00AM (#9630031)

Check out the golang challenge problems. http://golang-challenge.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea by pramodliv1 on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:37AM (#9630493)

You can implement your favourite data structures in Go, and see if you can make them faster by using the concurrency primitives in Go.

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Re:Ask HN: Golang weekend project idea by motyar on Saturday May 30, 2015 @08:47AM (#9629988)

Write REST API for mySQL database.

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