DevFest, Go programming, by a Google engineer (Crosspost)

DevFest.ca - A monthly workshop-series for experienced developers

What: DevFest.ca - Go (March 21)
Who: Francesc Campoy Flores (Google)
When: Saturday, March.21 - 10am-4pm
How Much: $40
Where: at OpenDNS
Suite 500 – 675 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.

In this workshop we will learn about the Go programming language, build a fully functional program, and deploy it on the Google Cloud infrastructure.

About Francesc

Francesc Campoy Flores is a Developer Advocate for Go and the Cloud at Google. He joined the Go team in 2012 and since then he has written some considerable didactic resources and traveled the world attending conferences, organizing live courses, and meeting fellow gophers.

He joined Google in 2011 as a back-end software engineer working mostly in C++ and Python, but it was with Go that he rediscovered how fun programming can be. You can find him on twitter as @francesc.

Prerequisites

Please make sure to download and install go, and to run through the "Try Go" tutorial on golang.org

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This is a cross post, do not confirm here. Register at DevFest.ca to register.