Roadmap & Concept List

This document provides an overview of the main topics that contributors and maintainers will probably focus on in the coming months.

Topics Overview

• Improve existing concept exercises
• Create additional concept exercises (see syllabus overview below)
• Define the prerequisites and practices lists for all practice exercises (see Issue 1396)
• Fix the remaining test runner bugs
• Fix and reactivate the analyzer (e.g. see Issue 16) and fix other bugs
• Finish a good, stable version of the representer and take it live
• Improve/add approaches to exercises
• Sync tests with problem specs

Syllabus Overview

Concept that exists

• basics
• strings and strings-package
• numbers (basic) and arithmetic-operators
• floating-point-numbers
• booleans
• comments
• conditionals-if and comparison
• conditionals-switch
• structs
• type-definitions
• slices
• iteration (for loop)
• functions (incl. multiple return values)
• maps
• range-iteration
• runes
• pointers
• methods
• interfaces
• errors
• zero-values (incl. nil)
• type-conversion
• type-assertion
• constants
• string-formatting
• packages (import/export)
• time
• variadic-functions (introduces ...)
• randomness
• regular-expressions
• stringers

Potential Future Concepts

• time-duration
• integer-types
• panic-recover
• error-wrapping (errors.Is, errors.As)
• bytes
• bitwise-operators
• goroutines
• waitgroups
• mutexes
• channels and select
• closures/anonymous-functions/higher-order-functions
• JSON
• defer
• Buffer, io.Reader/io.Writer
• typed-parameters (generics)
• context
• time helpers (ticket, sleep, etc.)
• reflection
• unsafe
• init
• functional options pattern
• embedding files

Additional topics that might be out of scope for concept exercises:

• tooling (go fmt, go vet, go doc etc.)
• writing tests and examples
• benchmarking
• profiling
• go generate
• compiler options