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, Website
• Miki Tebeka – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub
• Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

• 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!