doc: clean up docs page, refer to wiki, change install doc paths

R=golang-dev, minux.ma, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5728051
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Andrew Gerrand 2012-03-05 14:31:27 +11:00
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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ We will use <code>$</code> to represent the command prompt.
</p>
<p>
Install Go (see the <a href="/doc/install.html">Installation Instructions</a>).
Install Go (see the <a href="/doc/install">Installation Instructions</a>).
</p>
<p>
@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ func loadPage(title string) (*Page, error) {
Callers of this function can now check the second parameter; if it is
<code>nil</code> then it has successfully loaded a Page. If not, it will be an
<code>error</code> that can be handled by the caller (see the
<a href="/doc/go_spec.html#Errors">language specification</a> for details).
<a href="/ref/spec#Errors">language specification</a> for details).
</p>
<p>
@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ func saveHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
Catching the error condition in each handler introduces a lot of repeated code.
What if we could wrap each of the handlers in a function that does this
validation and error checking? Go's
<a href="http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Function_declarations">function
<a href="/ref/spec#Function_declarations">function
literals</a> provide a powerful means of abstracting functionality
that can help us here.
</p>

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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ We will use <code>$</code> to represent the command prompt.
</p>
<p>
Install Go (see the <a href="/doc/install.html">Installation Instructions</a>).
Install Go (see the <a href="/doc/install">Installation Instructions</a>).
</p>
<p>
@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ function to return <code>*Page</code> and <code>error</code>.
Callers of this function can now check the second parameter; if it is
<code>nil</code> then it has successfully loaded a Page. If not, it will be an
<code>error</code> that can be handled by the caller (see the
<a href="/doc/go_spec.html#Errors">language specification</a> for details).
<a href="/ref/spec#Errors">language specification</a> for details).
</p>
<p>
@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ Let's put a call to <code>getTitle</code> in each of the handlers:
Catching the error condition in each handler introduces a lot of repeated code.
What if we could wrap each of the handlers in a function that does this
validation and error checking? Go's
<a href="http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Function_declarations">function
<a href="/ref/spec#Function_declarations">function
literals</a> provide a powerful means of abstracting functionality
that can help us here.
</p>

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@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
<p>
This document explains how to contribute changes to the Go project.
It assumes you have installed Go using the
<a href="install.html">installation instructions</a> and
<a href="/doc/install">installation instructions</a> and
have <a href="code.html">written and tested your code</a>.
(Note that the <code>gccgo</code> frontend lives elsewhere;
see <a href="gccgo_contribute.html">Contributing to gccgo</a>.)

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@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ interpreted language.
<div id="manual-nav"></div>
<h2>Installing Go</h2>
<h3><a href="/doc/install">Getting Started</a></h3>
<p>
Instructions for downloading and installing the Go compilers, tools, and
libraries.
</p>
<h2 id="learning">Learning Go</h2>
<h3 id="go_tour"><a href="http://tour.golang.org/">A Tour of Go</a></h3>
@ -32,6 +41,12 @@ learned. You can <a href="http://tour.golang.org/">take the tour online</a> or
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/go-tour/">install it locally</a>.
</p>
<h3 id="code"><a href="code.html">How to write Go code</a></h3>
<p>
How to use the <a href="/cmd/go/">go command</a> to fetch, build, and install
packages, commands, and run tests.
</p>
<h3 id="effective_go"><a href="effective_go.html">Effective Go</a></h3>
<p>
A document that gives tips for writing clear, idiomatic Go code.
@ -39,11 +54,6 @@ A must read for any new Go programmer. It augments the tour and
the language specification, both of which should be read first.
</p>
<h3 id="code"><a href="code.html">How to write Go code</a></h3>
<p>
How to write a new package and how to test code.
</p>
<h3 id="appengine"><a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/gettingstarted/">Getting Started with Go on App Engine</a></h3>
<p>
How to develop and deploy a simple Go project with
@ -55,15 +65,15 @@ How to develop and deploy a simple Go project with
Answers to common questions about Go.
</p>
<h3>Other introductory articles</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/doc/articles/wiki/">Writing Web Applications</a> -
building a simple web application.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="wiki"><a href="http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki">Go Language Community Wiki</a></h3>
<p>A wiki full of useful information maintained by the Go community.</p>
<h2 id="articles">Go Articles</h2>
<h3 id="blog"><a href="http://blog.golang.org/">The Go Blog</a></h3>
<p>The official blog of the Go project, featuring news and in-depth articles by
the Go team and guests.</p>
<h3>Codewalks</h3>
<p>
Guided tours of Go programs.
@ -72,6 +82,7 @@ Guided tours of Go programs.
<li><a href="/doc/codewalk/functions">First-Class Functions in Go</a></li>
<li><a href="/doc/codewalk/markov">Generating arbitrary text: a Markov chain algorithm</a></li>
<li><a href="/doc/codewalk/sharemem">Share Memory by Communicating</a></li>
<li><a href="/doc/articles/wiki/">Writing Web Applications</a> - building a simple web application.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Language</h3>
@ -104,9 +115,15 @@ Guided tours of Go programs.
<li><a href="http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html">Profiling Go Programs</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="videos_talks">Videos and Talks</h2>
<h2 id="talks">Talks</h2>
<h3 id="writing_web_apps"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i0hat7pdpk">Writing Web Apps in Go</a></h3>
<p>
The talks marked with a red asterisk (<font color="red">*</font>) were written
before Go 1 and contain some examples that are no longer correct, but they are
still of value.
</p>
<h3 id="writing_web_apps"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i0hat7pdpk">Writing Web Apps in Go</a><font color="red">*</font></h3>
<p>
A talk by Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand presented at Google I/O 2011.
It walks through the construction and deployment of a simple web application
@ -114,7 +131,7 @@ and unveils the <a href="http://blog.golang.org/2011/05/go-and-google-app-engine
See the <a href="/doc/talks/io2011/Writing_Web_Apps_in_Go.pdf">presentation slides</a>.
</p>
<h3 id="real_world_go"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDVRowyUQA">Real World Go</a></h3>
<h3 id="real_world_go"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDVRowyUQA">Real World Go</a><font color="red">*</font></h3>
<p>
A talk by Andrew Gerrand presented at Google I/O Bootcamp 2011.
It gives a broad overview of Go's type system and concurrency model
@ -122,7 +139,14 @@ and provides four examples of Go programs that solve real problems.
See the <a href="/doc/talks/io2011/Real_World_Go.pdf">presentation slides</a>.
</p>
<h3 id="go_programming"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgVhBThJdXc">Go Programming</a></h3>
<h3 id="integrated_apps"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo1YKpIF1PQ">Building Integrated Apps on Google's Cloud Platform</a></h3>
<p>
A talk by Andrew Gerrand presented at Google Developer Day Japan 2011.
It discusses the development of a web application that runs on Google
App Engine and renders images that it stores on Google Cloud Storage.
</p>
<h3 id="go_programming"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgVhBThJdXc">Go Programming</a><font color="red">*</font></h3>
<p>
A presentation delivered by Rob Pike and Russ Cox at Google I/O 2010. It
illustrates how programming in Go differs from other languages through a set of
@ -130,7 +154,7 @@ examples demonstrating features particular to Go. These include concurrency,
embedded types, methods on any type, and program construction using interfaces.
</p>
<h3 id="practical_go_programming"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-pPAvqyluI">Practical Go Programming</a></h3>
<h3 id="practical_go_programming"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-pPAvqyluI">Practical Go Programming</a><font color="red">*</font></h3>
<p>
This talk presents the development of a complete web application in Go.
It looks at design, storage, concurrency, and scaling issues in detail, using
@ -138,118 +162,38 @@ the simple example of an URL shortening service.
See the <a href="http://wh3rd.net/practical-go/">presentation slides</a>.
</p>
<h3 id="techtalk"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s">The Go Tech Talk</a></h3>
<h3 id="talks_more">More</h3>
<p>
An hour-long talk delivered by Rob Pike at Google in October 2009.
The language's first public introduction. (See the <a href="talks/go_talk-20091030.pdf">slides in PDF format</a>.) The language has changed since it was made,
but it's still a good introduction.
See the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoTalks">GoTalks
page</a> at the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki">Go Wiki</a> for
more Go talks.
</p>
<h3 id="jaoo_go"><a href="/doc/ExpressivenessOfGo.pdf">The Expressiveness Of Go</a></h3>
<h2 id="nonenglish">Non-English Documentation</h2>
<p>
A discussion of the qualities that make Go an expressive and comprehensible
language. The talk was presented by Rob Pike at JAOO 2010.
The recording of the event was lost due to a hardware error.
See the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/NonEnglish">NonEnglish</a> page
at the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki">Go Wiki</a> for localized
documentation.
</p>
<h3 id="oscon_go"><a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/14760">Another Go at Language Design</a></h3>
<p>
A tour, with some background, of the major features of Go, intended for
an audience new to the language. The talk was presented at OSCON 2010.
See the <a href="http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/45/Another%20Go%20at%20Language%20Design%20Presentation.pdf">presentation slides</a>.
</p>
<p>
This talk was also delivered at Sydney University in September 2010. A video
of the lecture is available
<a href="http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/videos/seminar_pike">here</a>.
</p>
<h3 id="emerging_go"><a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/15464">Go Emerging Languages Conference Talk</a></h3>
<p>
Rob Pike's Emerging Languages Conference presentation delivered in July 2010. See the <a href="http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/45/Go%20Presentation.pdf">presentation slides</a>. Abstract:
</p>
<p><i>
Gos approach to concurrency differs from that of many languages, even those
(such as Erlang) that make concurrency central, yet it has deep roots. The path
from Hoares 1978 paper to Go provides insight into how and why Go works as it
does.
</i></p>
<h3 id="go_frontend_gcc"><a href="talks/gofrontend-gcc-summit-2010.pdf">The Go frontend for GCC</a></h3>
<p>
A description of the Go language frontend for gcc.
Ian Lance Taylor's paper delivered at the GCC Summit 2010.
</p>
<h3 id="promo_video"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwoWei-GAPo">The Go Promo Video</a></h3>
<p>
A short promotional video featuring Russ Cox demonstrating Go's fast compiler.
</p>
<h2 id="developer_info">The Go Community</h2>
<h2 id="community">The Go Community</h2>
<h3 id="mailinglist"><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts">Go Nuts Mailing List</a></h3>
<p>The <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts">golang-nuts</a>
mailing list is for general Go discussion.</p>
<h3 id=""><a href="http://godashboard.appspot.com/package">Go Packages Dashboard</a></h3>
<p>A list of the most popular <a href="/cmd/goinstall/">goinstall</a>'d
Go libraries.</p>
<h3 id=""><a href="http://godashboard.appspot.com/project">Go Project Dashboard</a></h3>
<h3 id="projects"><a href="http://godashboard.appspot.com/project">Go Project Dashboard</a></h3>
<p>A list of external Go projects including programs and libraries.</p>
<h3 id="wiki"><a href="http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki">Go Language Community Wiki</a></h3>
<p>A wiki full of useful information maintained by the Go community.</p>
<h3 id="irc"><a href="irc:irc.freenode.net/go-nuts">Go IRC Channel</a></h3>
<p><b>#go-nuts</b> on <b>irc.freenode.net</b> is the official Go IRC channel.</p>
<h3 id="plus"><a href="https://plus.google.com/101406623878176903605/posts">The Go Programming Language at Google+</a></h3>
<p>The Go project's Google+ page.</p>
<h3 id="twitter"><a href="http://twitter.com/go_nuts">@go_nuts at Twitter</a></h3>
<p>The Go project's official Twitter account.</p>
<h2 id="tutorials_nonenglish">Non-English Documentation</h2>
<h4 id="docs_be">Belarusian &mdash; Беларуская</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.designcontest.com/show/faq-be">faq-be</a> - Frequently Asked Questions.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="docs_cn">Chinese &mdash; 中文</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://go-tour-zh.appspot.com/">A Tour of Go</a></li>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/golang-china/">golang-china</a> - a broad range of Go documentation.</li>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/ac-me/downloads/detail?name=fango.pdf">Effective Go and (old) Tutorial</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="docs_cz">Czech &mdash; Čeština</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.abclinuxu.cz/clanky/google-go-pravidla-reflexe">Pravidla reflexe</a> - a translation of <a href="http://blog.golang.org/2011/09/laws-of-reflection.html">The Laws of Reflection</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="docs_fr">French &mdash; Français</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/golang-france/">golang-france</a> - Go documentation.
</ul>
<h4 id="docs_de">German &mdash; Deutsch</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://bitloeffel.de/DOC/golang/go_tutorial_de.html">Eine Anleitung zum Programmieren in Go</a> - the (old) Go Tutorial.</li>
<li><a href="http://bitloeffel.de/DOC/golang/effective_go_de.html">Wirkungsvoll Go programmieren</a> - Effective Go.</li>
<li><a href="http://bitloeffel.de/DOC/golang/code_de.html">Wie man Go-Kode schreibt</a> - How to Write Go Code.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="docs_jp">Japanese &mdash; 日本語</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://go-tour-jp.appspot.com/">A Tour of Go</a></li>
<li><a href="http://golang.jp/">golang.jp</a> - Go documentation and news.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="docs_kr">Korean &mdash; 한국어</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://go-tour-kr.appspot.com">A Tour of Go</a></li>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/golang-korea">golang-korea</a> - Go documentation and news.</li>
</ul>

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@ -7,15 +7,15 @@
<p>
These are some notes on contributing to the gccgo frontend for GCC.
For information on contributing to parts of Go other than gccgo,
see <a href="contribute.html">Contributing to the Go project</a>. For
see <a href="/doc/contribute.html">Contributing to the Go project</a>. For
information on building gccgo for yourself,
see <a href="gccgo_install.html">Setting up and using gccgo</a>.
see <a href="/doc/gccgo_install.html">Setting up and using gccgo</a>.
</p>
<h2>Legal Prerequisites</h2>
<p>
You must follow the <a href="contribute.html#copyright">Go copyright
You must follow the <a href="/doc/contribute.html#copyright">Go copyright
rules</a> for all changes to the gccgo frontend and the associated
libgo library. Code that is part of GCC rather than gccgo must follow
the general <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html">GCC

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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<!--{
"Title": "Setting up and using gccgo",
"Path": "/install/gccgo/"
"Path": "/doc/install/gccgo"
}-->
<p>
@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ License</a>.
<p>
Note that <code>gccgo</code> is not the <code>6g</code> compiler; see
the <a href="install.html">Installing Go</a> instructions for that
the <a href="/doc/install">Installing Go</a> instructions for that
compiler.
</p>
@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ repository: <code>svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gccgo</code>.
Note that although <code>gcc.gnu.org</code> is the most convenient way
to get the source code for the compiler, that is not where the master
sources live. If you want to contribute changes to the gccgo
compiler, see <a href="gccgo_contribute.html">Contributing to
compiler, see <a href="/doc/gccgo_contribute.html">Contributing to
gccgo</a>.
</p>

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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<!--{
"Title": "Installing Go from source",
"Path": "/install/source/"
"Path": "/doc/install/source"
}-->
<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ build them on your own machine, and run them.
<p>
Most users don't need to do this, and will instead install
from precompiled binary packages as described in
<a href="/doc/install.html">Getting Started</a>,
<a href="/doc/install">Getting Started</a>,
a much simpler process.
If you want to help develop what goes into those precompiled
packages, though, read on.
@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ This document focuses on the <code>gc</code> Go
compiler and tools (<code>6g</code>, <code>8g</code> etc.).
For information on how to work on <code>gccgo</code>, a more traditional
compiler using the GCC back end, see
<a href="/doc/gccgo_install.html">Setting up and using gccgo</a>.
<a href="/doc/install/gccgo">Setting up and using gccgo</a>.
</p>
<p>

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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<!--{
"Title": "Getting Started",
"Path": "/install/"
"Path": "/doc/install"
}-->
<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ compiler.
<p>
For information about installing the <code>gc</code> compiler from source, see
<a href="/install/source/">Installing Go from source</a>.
<a href="/doc/install/source">Installing Go from source</a>.
For information about installing <code>gccgo</code>, see
<a href="/install/gccgo/">Setting up and using gccgo</a>.
<a href="/doc/install/gccgo">Setting up and using gccgo</a>.
</p>
<h2 id="download">Obtaining the Go tools</h2>
@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ x86 processor architectures.
<p>
If a binary distribution is not available for your
OS/arch combination you may want to try
<a href="/install/source/">installing from source</a> or
<a href="/install/gccgo/">installing gccgo instead of gc</a>.
<a href="/doc/install/source">installing from source</a> or
<a href="/doc/install/gccgo">installing gccgo instead of gc</a>.
</p>
<h2 id="install">Installing the Go tools</h2>