Introduction to Go programming

Exotel is proud to be an active supporter of “Women Who Go” initiative. This global initiative seeks to create an active Go community for women engineers. The group’s efforts include imparting Go programming skills, organizing study groups and workshops, evaluating Go  for varied use cases, and the like. More information on the group and their activities can be found here.

Recently, the first India chapter of this initiative came into existence. Cindy Sridharan and Sarah Adams from the “Women Who Go” community initiated the conversation for a similar chapter. Bangalore is hosting the GopherCon India, 2016, and therefore is an ideal candidate for first such chapter in India. I volunteered to start the India community which gave rise to the meetup group called “Women-Who-Go-Bangalore”.

The first event of the group started with an “Introduction to Go Programming”. The event was held at the Bhive Workspace, Indiranagar, one of Exotel’s co-working space partners. There were about 15 attendees in all. It was extremely flattering to see two attendees travel from out of town especially for the event! The presentation covered the inception of Go, its differences with conventional programming languages and some language features. We started off at about 10:45am, and before we realized, it was about 1:30pm, going without a break (the last bit wasn’t intended, but one loses track of time when having fun!).

Please refer to the event presentation attached. Some of these topics will be dealt with in more depth in the upcoming events. So do keep an eye out for them as well.

We wish the group good luck with their work in helping spread the use of Go programming around the world and encouraging women programmers to adopt the language. After all, creative minds love to bounce ideas off each other, and what could be a better platform than one of this nature and quality!