Learn Go for Beginners Crash Course (Golang) (Udemy.com)

This course offers plenty of hands-on exercises and a clear, methodical pace — great for beginners who are new to Go. The step-by-step explanations help build confidence and familiarity with the syntax through active practice rather than passive watching. That said, some explanations could be clearer or more consistent. For example, the distinction between expressions, literals, and statements isn’t always well defined, and the discussion around whether struct methods should use pointer receivers (*) or value receivers can be confusing or even contradictory at times. The pace is quite slow, which works well for absolute beginners, but may feel tedious for students with prior programming experience. Adding a “fast-track” option or summary sections could make the course more flexible. Overall, it’s a solid introductory course with well-structured exercises. If Trevor adds more precise explanations for core concepts and perhaps some examples involving concurrency or practical applications, this would easily become one of the best Go beginner courses on Udemy.

I think overall Trevor is a great instructor. My 3 main problems with the course were: 1. This is NOT a course for people with no programming experience, Trevor relies on us knowing concepts from other languages several times and regardless I don't think Go is a good language to start your coding journey with. 2. The course is very messy - some core subjects are taught very late like strings being taught after the half point while much more advanced stuff like slices and structs are taught somewhat in the beginning 3. The exercises - I feel like there should be more practice and overall I'm not a fan of the projects we made. We get atleast 80% of a project already made for us and we just finish it up, sure, if there were more exercises I wouldn't mind it too much, but there's only one somewhat interesting exercise we do on our own in the very beginning. However, compared to other courses on Udemy, this course is mostly very straight to the point, doesn't fake it's length with outdated lectures and teaches a lot for it's length. I did get this course on sale and with 1 or 2 more of Trevor's courses I feel like I will have a very good understanding of the Go language.

Overall, a great course going through all the relevant basics of picking up Golang from scratch. It's easy to follow for less experienced engineers, and for the more experienced it opens up room for improving the code samples shown in the lectures if you're following along with coding. The minor drawback is some less than ideal practices shown in the code samples which may teach people a bit of wrong-thinking if they lack previous experience in developing software. Overall, I'd still recommend this to anyone looking to dive into Golang. Thanks Trevor!

I was already quite familiar with Go but I decided to take this course just to see the basics taught from another point of view... it never hurts. I'm glad I did because I learned a few additional points which helped clarify some basic issues for me. This is a great short course, pitched exactly where it needs to be and finishes with an excellent, basic example of a Go web application. I would highly recommend this course.

It's an excellent course Dr. Sawler is one of if not the best Go instructors on this site. I highly recommend it. However, there are two things I'd like addressed: I would have liked a longer, more in-depth explanation of the two main programs shown in the course (Hammer Bitcoin & Eliza). Also, if we built the programs in the course, it would have helped solidify how they work. Lastly, I didn't like how we had to use 3rd party libraries at certain points, it seemed lazy and detracted from the learning experience. I would have loved to learn how to build the same functionality rather than simply using someone else's code.

Excellent course! Easily one of the best I have taken on Udemy. Trevor is an outstanding instructor. Great pace, easy to understand and a pleasant voice to listen to over the course of a 100 videos. Lessons and exercises are very well thought out and engaging. While they are still toy projects they are fun to work on and I have plans to make use of each of the main projects as starting points for further Go language learning on my own. My only slight knock is early on we were briefly shown a color package for text. I kept hoping we were going to come back to that and implement it into our own project(s), but it was never mentioned again. The lessons and projects really kept me engaged throughout the course, and while sad to admit, it is one of the few on Udemy I have completed in total. Typically the lessons begin to get boring as it is the same as a previous lesson but with slightly different focus (I'm looking at you ML courses), or I just can't take the instructor any longer. This was never an issue with this course. Overall, I can't imagine a better introduction to the Go language, and I will definitely be seeking out other courses instructed by Trevor. Top notch in all respects. Highly recommend if new to Go and looking for a solid introduction.

Trevor is an excellent instructor, have clear and simple examples, overall good content of how to start with golang for someone with with little to none programming knowledge. Great if you need the push to start learning the language. I felt it was a bit too basic, expected a bit more content. there was nothing about - defer, panic and recover, which are not too advance and is essential part of the language . And more information about go-routines, channels and concurrency.

I absolutely loved this course, I've taken a few others and none of them can stand up to this one! Lots of clear explanations and if you get stuck, you can post a question (if you find that your question isn't already answered in the QA section) and the instructor will help out. Always remember that if he does not answer your question quickly, you're not the only student taking this course and you need to be patient until he can get around to it. If you want to be successful you ABSOLUTELY need to follow along with the exercises and type them out, don't expect to be a sponge and think you'll absorb the knowledge. I'm excited to continue my journey with Trevor's other courses with web dev in go!

FANTASTIC! Finally, someone that teaches about Go modules! So much out there is done the old way in Go, and this course cleared up a lot of confusion I had. I now know how to get user input from the console in Go! I also thought that everything was explained well. I'm excited to start Trevor's other courses in Go! Altogether, this course is a great introduction to the Go programming language for beginners! I would recommend it to anyone interested in learning Go!

I started this course as I know Golang is becoming more widely used and is excellent for the types of systems I find myself working on now (web services). The course is excellent, with short focussed lessons which cover concepts but also apply them to real world problems. The instructor is clear in his explanations, paces the content exactly right, but is also an experienced programmer, and I picked up plenty of non Golang tips about coding in general. The web app example at the end, which the whole course builds towards is an excellent lesson in how Golang fits into the full stack. I completed the course in two weeks, at an hour a day (including all the challenges and some reviewing lessons) If you want an clean and clear introduction to Golang and its web service native data types this is the course for you. To give you an idea of where I was starting from, I have 10+ years in the IT industry, it is only in the last 5-4 years I have started getting into serious coding. I have designed and written a couple of web systems and have a good understanding of networks, servers, python, html and js. I also understand coding basics (iteration, branching) and have worked with API (REST/SOAP) and databases (SQL/Graph).