Go (golang) Bootcamp

Name: Go (golang) Bootcamp
Rating: 3.4 (2 reviews)

A hands-on step-by-step building up of an HTTP monitoring service

Created byOhad Kravchick

Last updated 5/2020

English

What you'll learn

Intermediate Go programming
Lean startup - how to build something fast from scratch
How golang is different than many other backend languages
Designing applications from start to finish (idea, design, code, test, and finally release)

Course content

1 section • 6 lectures • 2h 29m total length

Overview and setup12:59
The one where we explain what we'll build and lay the ground work ("hello world" working).
Implementing an HTTP Client22:50
The one where we make an HTTP call to sites and inspect their output.
Writing Unit Tests13:58
The one where we automate our manual testing of different HTTP call results.
Adding Custom Business Logic30:01
The one where we notify our customers based on our requirements.
Implementing Concurrency for Multi-User Support39:27
The one where the server goes global and allows for more users.
Writing an HTTP Server30:41
The one where users can primitively interact with our service.

Requirements

Know any other programming language to an intermediate level

Description

In this course we learn Google's go programming language (golang).

We start by learning a bit about the language, looking at how to code simple things, like classes, methods, etc. We go through official golang docs, so as to prepare the student to be independent in the future. We slowly add language features and slowly expand the application to be more usable and robust. We also cover testing, installing, and running golang apps. Overall, we iteratively building a demo MVP (minimal viable product) of a monitoring service.

We explore the language syntax and constructs and features. We understand how to read APIs, how to find information online about what's available, and more. And we learn how to combine the different parts into a well-architectured application.

The pace of the course is suited for novice programmers who do not know go already but know some programming. The training can be easily followed. At the end of the course, the student will know enough golang to be able to write some code on their own, to learn parts of the language that are not covered in the course, and generally be able to master the language at their own pace.

Hope you enjoy this course.

Who this course is for:

Beginner engineers, who consider learning golang
Experienced engineers, who want to justify programming in golang