go-koans VS zeal

Hi all, I'm working on the about_arrays.go exercise for Koans (https://github.com/cdarwin/go-koans/blob/master/about_arrays.go), and I'm at wits end trying to solve a task regarding printing the type of a slice. Surprisingly, I've been unable to find a solution set for the specific iteration of Koans. Any help is appreciated. Cheers.

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as a 2m / 6'5" person... you are so lucky

I wish I could zip through a set of programming koans on a flight like https://github.com/cdarwin/go-koans without elbowing my seat neighbors to a pulp

if I could even get the table tray down. more often than not i eat with the food on my knees :(

When I was learning Ruby a few years ago I found Ruby Koans a useful project in learning the language. The concept is it uses TDD to present you with a problem. You fix one failing test at a time and as you fix them the next failing test gets progressively more complex. Go has a similar project called Go Koans. It hasn’t seen an update in 2 years though it could still prove useful in learning Go concepts. It doesn’t meet your criteria for showing a solution afterward, but might still be a good option.

There's also Zeal (https://zealdocs.org/) which is basically the same as Dash but open source and runs on non-Mac devices.

For offline tech documentation you can use Zeal. Must have tool for poor internet connection places. Present in ubuntu repos. https://zealdocs.org/

ads don't have to proprietary

here's one example of ads in FOSS https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/779

There’s stuff like https://zealdocs.org/ that allow you to take all relevant documentation with you so offline coding will work.

If you just want to be productive, you could also bring a lot of books or downloaded tutorials on a drive.

Btw, make sure your drive is encrypted and you think of a way to backup your data so you don’t lose the offline progress.

I’d suggest you look into Kiwix¹ and also Zeal².

1. https://www.kiwix.org/

2. https://zealdocs.org/

For offline documentation, I use Zeal (called Dash on macos) which looks/works almost identically to rubydoc.info but much faster since it's offline, has a standard interface for all installed language documentations, and only 1 global hotkey away while programming.

I highly recommend using local solutions to this local issue: Zeal[1] (aka Dash[2] on MacOS)

Load up the "docsets" of your languages (lightly edited HTML docs for indexing purposes) and use a global keyboard shortcut (F8 for me) to pull up Python/Postgres/Terraform docs, searching for the right function without internet query.

This isn't straight up applicable to all questions of course, but "How do I search regular expressions in Python again?" is now as easy as "re"

Note that the docsets can be converted from normal HTML ones via doc2dash[3], especially useful to load up custom docs like private providers.

[1]: https://zealdocs.org/