Go Path

[burtlo]

To bring the Go path up to the same standard as the Ruby Path the following exercises need to be converted:

• bob
• word-count
• anagram
• beer-song
• nucleotide-count
• rna-transcription
• point-mutations
• phone-number
• hamming
• grade-school
• robot-name
• leap
• etl
• meetup
• space-age
• grains
• gigasecond
• triangle
• scrabble-score
• roman-numerals
• binary
• prime-factors
• raindrops
• allergies
• strain
• atbash-cipher
• accumulate
• crypto-square
• trinary
• sieve
• simple-cipher
• octal
• luhn
• pig-latin
• pythagorean-triplet
• series
• difference-of-squares
• secret-handshake
• linked-list
• wordy
• hexadecimal
• largest-series-product
• kindergarden-garden
• binary-search-tree
• matrix
• robot (robot-movement has no example, robot-pivots has no example)
• nth-prime
• palindrome-products
• pascals-triangle
• say
• sum-of-multiples
• queen-attack
• saddle-points
• ocr-numbers

[burtlo]

@msgehard I created this issue for you and others that are knocking out the Go assignments.

[shterrett]

I'm wondering if it would be possible to open up the completed Go assignments so that we can work through them as they're being completed?

[kytrinyx]

There's nobody around to nitpick Go assignments at the moment, so opening it up would likely leave people frustrated and waiting for feedback. When I know that we have two or three people who understand the idioms and best practices in Go, then I'll open it up.

@levicook said he'd be willing to nitpick, but I don't want to leave him with the sole responsibility.

[vendion]

What requirements are you looking for to help nitpick Go assignments? I wouldn't mind helping out, and may be able to ask around to see if others are willing to help. I want to make Go in exercism.io a reality!

[kytrinyx]

I want to make Go in exercism.io a reality!

Fantastic. Me too :)

I need people who can look at some Go code and make keen observations about Go conventions and idioms and how this bit of code uses the Go language effectively, or how one could use the Go language more effectively.

I'd also love help making sure that both the tests and the example code follow good practices and conventions so that we're not leading people astray from the start.

[vendion]

Well as I said I will be more than willing to help out, I have been using
Go since it went public so I have a fair understanding of the language and
conventions. Also if the lack of experienced Go developers is the main
thing holding Go back maybe bring it up in some of the Go channels, like
the Golang subreddit, mailing list, and IRC channel I am sure that once the
word is out it will be fairly easy to find the help you need.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Katrina Owen notifications@github.comwrote:

I want to make Go in exercism.io a reality!

Fantastic. Me too :)

I need people who can look at some Go code and make keen observations
about Go conventions and idioms and how this bit of code uses the Go
language effectively, or how one could use the Go language more effectively.

I'd also love help making sure that both the tests and the example code
follow good practices and conventions so that we're not leading people
astray from the start.

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[kytrinyx]

Excellent. I'll do that.

I'm going to aim for getting 20 exercises ready (we have 12 so far), then launch the path, and then aim for getting the rest of the exercises live following the launch.

@vendion, @levicook, would you mind taking a look at the existing exercises in
https://github.com/kytrinyx/exercism.io/tree/master/assignments/go ?

Essentially I'd like to sanity check the tests and example code to make sure they're not making any obvious blunders, and are reasonable examples of what good Go code would look like.

[shterrett]

Thanks everyone!

[levicook]

I started hamming under #1007 -- tests are written, implementation is up next.

[levicook]

I think the hamming example is in decent shape; I'm going to try linked-list next.

[kytrinyx]

@vendion, @levicook - I'm launching the go track (we have over 10 assignments, can add more as we progress).

I'll give both of you access to nitpick all go exercises. Would you mind stopping by regularly for a while while this gets kicked off and we find more people who are willing to participate?

[levicook]

Sure, where do I go to "stop by"?

[kytrinyx]

http://exercism.io/nitpick/go/no-nits :)

[vendion]

One thing that would make nitpicking easier, is if in the Nitpick screen there was a link to the documentation (if available) and the test file(s) that goes with the assignment. I'm sure this also belongs in another issue, if so sorry about the spam.

[kytrinyx]

I'll create a new issue for that. Thank you!

[kytrinyx]

Superseded by exercism/go#3