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Learn Programming in GO (golang): A Rich Guide for Beginners (Udemy.com)

A comprehensive introduction to Google's GO programming language (golang) for beginners & intermediate programmers

Created by: Jens Schendel

Last updated December 2023

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What you will learn

  • Syntax, notation, taxonomy and special "vocabulary" used by and for GO
  • Basic concepts of programming in GO, such as control structures, control flow, loops, and conditional branching
  • Characteristics and differences of GO to more "conservative" programming languages such as C, C++ and Java
  • Handling of variables, types, functions (and their signatures), (variatic) parameters and passing arguments
  • Variables & types (simple and composite), slices & pointers, structs, etc.
  • Functions, Callbacks, Closures
  • Concurrency & Parallelization, Mutex, Atomic
  • Channels (directional, bidirectional), Fan in, Fan out, the "Comma OK" Idiom, Context
  • Error Detection, Error Handling
  • Code Documentation in GO
  • Benchmarks, Examples and Tests (BET)
  • Basics package and dependency management with GO modules

How it compares

Against the other 52 rated Udemy courses in Go on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 11% of them
  • Reviews50#43 of 53 by number of reviews
  • Length42.6 hourslonger than 98% of them
  • Last updatedDecember 2023more recently than 55% of them

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Course Description

Join me on an exciting journey as we experience coding with Google's GO (golang) programming language. Together we will learn the basics of programming as well as the ins and outs of the GO programming language.

This course is intended as a comprehensive resource for learning programming basics an concepts in general and Google's GO (golang) programming language in particular - a comprehensive experience.

Due to its large scope, the course is equally suitable for beginners and slightly more advanced developers and it is full of examples, quizzes, hands-on exercises, solutions to that practical exercises, and a tiny code repository -- accessible via Github.

When you sign up for this course, you have lifetime access to the course. You can learn at your own pace and return to content at any time for deeper insights or to learn additional concepts when you are ready.

  • This course also comes with a 100% money back guarantee.

  • I think this is one of the most comprehensive courses in English for learning the GO programming language.

  • And if for some reason the course doesn't work for you, you can get a full refund within the first 14 days*.

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You can get great value from this course and, more importantly, you'll have a great time learning one of the best programming languages ever - the GO programming language, the fastest growing programming language with the highest paid programmers in the US within the last years.

GO is an open-source programming language that makes it easy to develop simple, reliable, and efficient software.

GO was developed by computer science luminaries at one of the best, if not the best, software development companies ever - Google. The design and implementations are by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson.

GO is a very good choice for learning a programming language because it was developed by some of the same people who created the C programming language, Unix, and UTF-8 - some of the most influential contributions to computer science. With GO Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson created a modern programming language that can easily run on multiple processors in parallel, works smoothly in different environments, and makes it easy for programmers to write programs with a very streamlined and user-friendly syntax.

Why did Google develop a new programming language?

In Google's words, "GO was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming. Programming had become too difficult and the choice of languages was partly to blame. One had to choose either

  • efficient compilation,

  • efficient execution, or

  • ease of programming;

all three were not available in the same mainstream language. Programmers who could were choosing ease over safety and efficiency by moving to dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript rather than C++ or, to a lesser extent, Java. GO is an attempt to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language. It also aims to be modern, with support for networked and multicore computing.

Finally, working with GO is intended to be fast: it should take at most a few seconds to build a large executable on a single computer. To meet these goals required addressing a number of linguistic issues: an expressive but lightweight type system; concurrency and garbage collection; rigid dependency specification; and so on. These cannot be addressed well by libraries or tools; a new language was called for."

In my humble opinion, GO is the best programming language you can learn today. I've worked with a few programming languages since I was introduced to programming through BASIC in the mid-80s, and Go is by far the best-designed language I've ever used.

Join learning one of the best programming languages ever designed. You will get knowledge, ideas, concepts, inspiration, quizzes, and code samples to learn to create software and applications yourself according to your needs.

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Instructor Details

Jens Schendel

CLA & CLE – C Language Certified Associate Programmer & Entry-Level Programmer

Harvard/edX CS50x Introduction to Computer Science

LPIC-2 & 1 Linux Engineer & Admin

CBSA & CBBF - BTA Certified Blockchain Solution Architect & Blockchain Business Foundations

CompTIA Linux+


Digital History:

Atari 2600, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore C64, Dragon 32, Dragon 64, Apple II, Amiga, x286, x386, x486, Pentium, Pentium II-4, Apple Mac G3, G4, G5, MacMini, MacBook, RasPi, workstations from i3-i7 und all places you can open a shell to! :-)


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Reviews

4.2

50 ratings on Udemy

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By Paul Smietan on 1/27/2025

Jens takes the time to explain details that are pertinent to developers. The concepts are well presented and fun to code along to. Great job!

By Bob Barker on 12/25/2023

Great course. Starts from zero. Lots of quizzes!

By Joe Permant on 11/9/2023

If you already have experience in programming in other programming languages, you can skip large parts completely. Comprehensive introduction to programming with Golang

By Frank Onest on 11/7/2023

Lots of video, lots of content, lots of quizzes. Nice for beginners, especially when starting from low level.

By Apu Mahelipitilan on 11/5/2023

This beginner Go programming course is awesome for me! The instructor's passion is contagious, making learning a joy. Clear explanations, hands-on exercises, and lots of quizzes for beginners. I went from zero to confident coder, thanks to this course. Highly recommended!

By Ayodeji Stephen Olujare on 1/26/2023

It has been great! Well explained and the instructor is super great. I love how he explained and illustrate the whole course. It has been great so far. I have learned the basic fundamentals so far. Thanks to the instructor of this course.

By Ahmed Mustafa Mohammed on 10/29/2022

Initially, I didn't have that much knowledge of GO lang. I listened to many videos on youtube. but it didn't work. on starting this course, I feel I can understand easily what I learned so far. It can help anyone in the beginner's phase like me.

By G. Maria on 9/20/2022

Explains a lot more than golang. also covers the very basics of computer science.

By Serhii Hrechka on 8/12/2022

Too many blablabla

By Constance Z on 8/11/2022

Great course so far. So much content. The instructor starts at the very beginning and leads through each section carefully.

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Overall Score : 84 / 100