
Meet instructor Ali Muhammad Amin, a software engineer with extensive DevOps and cloud certifications, introducing the Golang for absolute beginners course and his development, DevOps, and cloud video plans.
Go is a cross-platform open-source programming language for high-performance applications, developed at Google in 2007. It combines speed, static typing, and simplicity with built-in concurrency and a robust standard library.
Discover Go's fast runtime and quick compilation, easy syntax, and simple setup. Explore its concurrency features and automatic memory management across Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Go powers cloud and network services with an ecosystem of tools and APIs on cloud providers, enabling fast web apps, elegant CLIs, and enhanced memory performance for DevOps and SRE.
Go contrasts statically typed, fast-compiled code with Python's dynamic typing and Cplusplus's fast runtime, while offering concurrency and automatic garbage collection but lacking classes and inheritance.
Learn how to install Go on Windows and Mac. Then run your first Go program on Ubuntu and install Golang IDE and VS Code on Ubuntu.
Install go on Windows and Mac by downloading from the official site, running the installer, and configuring your path, then verify with go version.
Learn to run your first go program by writing hello.go with package main, import format, and println to print hello world. Then run go run hello.go to see the output.
install Golang on Ubuntu and see how an integrated development environment boosts productivity through editing, building, testing, version control, debugging, and packaging, with snap steps to install Goland.
Learn to install VS Code on Ubuntu using the software center or snap package, then set up the Go extension and run a hello world program in the integrated terminal.
Explore Go syntax by examining package declaration, import packages, functions, statements and expressions, focusing on the main package, println from the format package, and semicolon and left curly brace rules.
Discover how Go comments improve readability and debugging by using single-line // and multi-line /* */ comments to explain code and prevent execution, illustrated with a hello world example.
____ 3x1 : Three goals in only one course ! _____
1- Learn Go ! 2- Prepare Go interviews & Codingame Tests ! 3- Make your first step to learn Devops/Cloud
It’s important to learn new skills, but it’s even more important to learn the right skills.
Why Golang ?
Well, Golang has been the most popular language to learn over the past 3 years, and is easily one of the top trending programming languages of the past decade.
But the reason why it’s popular is because it’s the true programmer’s language. It was built with the idea to make work a lot easier for programmers all over the world. And it does exactly that.
Go or Golang is a programming language developed and maintained by Google. It is a free and open-source language. It’s easy to learn, it’s scalable and it has fast execution.
This course requires zero experience in programming or coding. All it takes is some discipline and following our easy-to-understand curriculum.
This course won’t just throw content at you. We’ve made sure that what you learn will actually stick. After each module, you’ll get access to practice questions to truly understand the concepts we teach you.
In this course, you will learn:
Data types & Variables
Strings
Arrays
Slices
Maps
Operators
Control flow
Functions
and other Go concepts.
Ready to Go?
Embark on your journey to mastering Go. Enroll now and transform your career with the power of Go programming.