[JohnCClarke]

The easiest way to learn golang is to sign up on HackerRank and try out their exercises. You can do it in-browser, so no need to even install the toolchain. You'll learn faster by doing and reading in parallel.

To see examples of good source code just click thru the function names when searching the documentation. E.g. https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#NewRequest They link directly to the source code, and the standard library is extremely well commented.