Andrew Gerrand
Software Engineer, Google

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Andrew Gerrand is an Software Engineer at Google where he is one of the core contributors to the Go Programming Language. He spends most of his time trying to make it easier for programmers to learn and use Go. As well as working on the Go core, he manages the Go community and has given presentations and tutorials on Go in many countries across four continents.

Sessions

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/17/2012
Building real software with Go
Programming
 Location: E145-146
Tags: web, open_source, programming, go, concurrency, tools, http, version_control, software, networking
Andrew Gerrand (Google)
Average rating: ***..
(3.22, 18 ratings)
Dive headfirst into the Go Programming Language with this hands-on tutorial. Following the successful "Tour of Go" from OSCON in 2011, this pragmatic tutorial walks through the process of building a complete, useful, and idiomatic Go program. Participants will learn the Go language, libraries, and tools and have fun writing a real Go program. Read more.
10:40am Wednesday, 07/18/2012
The Path to Go 1
Programming
 Location: Portland 256
Tags: languages, programming, go, tools, productivity, libraries
Andrew Gerrand (Google), Rob Pike (Google, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.42, 19 ratings)
Go 1 is a stable version of the Go Programming Language that will be supported for years to come. In this talk, Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand outline the major highlights of the release and discuss the details behind some specific libraries and tools. They show that Go is not just a language, but a cohesive programming environment for producing high quality software. Read more.

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