Building Modern Web Applications with Go (Golang) (Udemy.com)

The course is very well done and I feel pretty comfortable with the language after this course. However there were some quirks that were a struggle to get over. Some of which were mentioned a few times in the Q&A (Lecture 122 in particular). I would also recommend that due to the age of the course it may be time for a refresh as the code was originally written with GO v1.15 while v1.24 is currently out so there are likely numerous advancement in the language that could be used to improve the project. If a remaster of the course is done, please use a single repo throughout the course and commiting the code after each lecture. This should hopefully prevent another Lecture 122 issue and other bits of code showing up mysteriously with out being discussed. I would definitely redo the project if the course is remaster. Thank you!

A very good introduction to web development in Go. Concepts were clearly explained and demonstrated in code. Go templates are used through much of the course to simplify the HTML.

The course is very thorough, especially for the length, and goes through GoLang as the core of all web dev within the course, exploring little bits of SQL, HTML/CSS/JS, as well as a bit of cloud deployment/management at the end. The professor is competent and has a solid plan in place and it comes to a satisfactory conclusion. However, this is definitely not for raw beginners (though let's be real, not many people are finding this course as a first coding course). I think someone with very little GoLang or web dev experience could feel very intimidated and not understand much that's being done at certain points throughout. That's not to say you couldn't complete it, but gaining an overall picture of what's being done might be difficult. The teaching method tends to have little "why" in a macro sense, and a lot more "what" and "how", since virtually the whole time he is writing code that we the students are copying at a pretty blistering pace, with brief pauses to explain the current overview of the goal at hand, but more in a sense of "this is what we're doing" not "this concept is important because blah blah blah". That's why I think it's very helpful if you have some concept of the overall goals of what each action is doing from background in web dev or idiomatic GoLang so that the syntax and micro-contexts that he explains very well are new material you can gobble up, whereas the overall goals and ideas such as "why do you need these particular kind of folders? Why organize them this way? What is the general process and checklist for deploying to the cloud?" etc are already internalized so you can devote the bulk of focus on micro concepts. For reference, I've been developing in Angular on the frontend for 3 years (so TS, SCSS, HTML), and the course was pretty daunting at points in which I generally knew what we were doing and why we were doing it, but could never conceive of coming up with that solution on my own (especially in the cloud deployment sections). That being said, it was very interesting and I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to do web dev primarily using GoLang who already has some background in web dev.

Hats off to a great teacher! Superbly explained and helps developers in exploring core strength of Go. Was lucky enough to take this course and 6 last months have been full of learning and fun! Instructor is tireless as he explains/ implements in detail how modern web apps are built! A real gem!

This is a fantastic course for a Go novice, in my opinion. Trevor demonstrates a variety of approaches. He begins at a basic level, allowing me to gain a better understanding of what's going on beneath the covers, then gradually progresses to better, easier methods. I'm new to Go but have been programming for about 50 years, and this is one of the best courses I've come across. However, additional completed code examples at the end of more sections would be helpful. Some of my issues were difficult to locate.

This course is a great way to get a fundamental understanding of working in Golang and the deployment of web applications. It covers a lot of ground and really makes you think about what is going on. There are places where the continuity of the lectures, because of the material used in them falls down a little... but it is only a little... and if you are running with the ball, you will have no trouble cross-referencing all the material to pick up a thread, if necessary. Trevor Sawler has a great teaching style, you get all the errors and thoughts as you proceed, I find it really works for me. All in all a very good course indeed and thoroughly recommended. Put it like this, I'll be back for more...

This is the best web development in Go, doctor Sawler has been teaching some of the programming concepts that helps me understand how to structure real world software are designed and implemented. I have been taking many programming courses on udemy.com and other websites on the same subjects, but I have always came back to learn from this course, because I the code concepts in this course are superior and comprehensive compared to many other courses I have purchased.

Excellent demonstration of knowledge, skills and understanding of the Web and Go . Prof Sawler, I like the Repository design pattern, it made the course easy to follow and add configurations. He gave clear explanations as to how and why certain decisions were made. I appreciate the effort & time put in designing this course. Although there was some background noise, this course deserves all the stars because I understood most of the topics discussed by Prof Sawler. Ergo, I highly recommend the course to anyone with the basics of Go who wants to learn how to build web apps with the language. Thank you Prof!

Diverse parti mi sono state molto utili (linguaggio Go, framework e strumenti vari). Altre invece (es. programmazione web) le conoscevo già eppure hanno occupato diverse ore di lezione. Ho seguito queste parti solo per capire cosa l'insegnante stava facendo. Ci sono cose che avrei implementato in altro modo. E' comprensibile che l'obbiettivo fosse didattico, ma così facendo si è persa buona parte dell'utilità pratica del codice scritto. Vedi ad esempio riscrivere parte del codice sorgente apposta per i test. Invece di usare il codice già esistente.

Trevor articulates important concepts really well. The questions I asked are quickly clarified by Trevor himself. If you're interested in setting up backend server in Go, making it communicate with database, handling errors, testing http requests, rendering html template, and more importantly how to organize your code into packages that make sense, this course is it.