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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!

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 – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteMiki Tebeka – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteNatalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHubJon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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!

Twitter Mentions