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I wrote recently about my experience learning the Go programming language on the job. Here's something I didn't include in the article:

I asked one of my coworkers who's an expert in Go what I should do to start learning the language. He said approximately: "I actually don't have anything to tell you. I've been using Go for so long, I don't know what the good place to start as a beginner is"!

It's hard to look at something from a beginner's point of view.

You have to capture what you're learning while it's alive, before it becomes rote memory.

I'll use that blog as an example again. I'm still in the process of learning Go.

I certainly don't know everything about it. If I were being graded in a "Go 101" class, I'd almost definitely fail!

But by the time I'm an expert, I'll probably have forgotten what I struggled with, what I had to learn, and where I learned it from. I might make some mistakes in my Go blog post now by writing it too early, but I would do worse if I waited until it was too late.

Write it down live, while you can, before it's gone forever.