I took a seminar class in Go in my final year of school, in the spring of 2010. I was hooked pretty early. It was a very chaotic time to be writing Go; the language would change from week to week, so if we did a pull from the Go repo, there was no guarantee last week's assignment would still compile! At the time, the canonical way to compile code was by makefile:

  include $(GOROOT)/src/Make.$(GOARCH)
  
  TARG=bin/command
  GOFILES=main.go
  
  include $(GOROOT)/src/Make.cmd

The thing I miss most is the netchan. I understand the reasons they got rid of it (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/Er3Tetnt...) but when it worked, it was fantastic.