Learning Go Practice Workspace

This repository is a local practice workspace for Learning Go, 2nd Edition by Jon Bodner.

The main deliverable is the offline exercise pack in practice/README.md. It extracts the chapter-end exercises into individual day-by-day folders so you can practice in the terminal and check your work with tests.

There is also a SQLite-backed terminal app inside practice/ for tracking what you have started, completed, and tested.

What Is Here

• practice/ A 48-day offline practice pack with one folder per exercise.
• practice/SCHEDULE.md A simple day-by-day roadmap.
• practice/catalog.json A machine-readable list of all extracted exercises.
• Bodner J Learning Go An Idiomatic ApproachReal-world Go Programming 2ed 2024.pdf The source book PDF used for extraction.

Quick Start

Move into the practice pack:

cd practice

List all exercise folders:

make list

Show tracked progress:

make progress

See the next exercise:

make next

Start a tracked day:

make start DAY=4

Mark it done:

make done DAY=4

Run one day:

make day DAY=day-004-ch02-ex01

Or run tests directly inside a specific folder:

cd day-004-ch02-ex01
go test

How The Pack Works

Each day folder includes:

• the original exercise prompt
• a local acceptance test
• either an official reference solution or an offline testing contract

Some exercises were adapted slightly so they still work offline. This mostly affects prompts that originally depended on public repositories, the Go Playground, downloadable sample apps, or manual exploration.

The tracker stores its data in practice/.practice.db, so your progress stays local and works offline.

Recommended Flow

1. Pick the next folder from practice/SCHEDULE.md.
2. Read that folder's README.md.
3. Implement your solution in the exercise folder.
4. Run go test.
5. If you get stuck, compare with the local reference/ folder when one exists.