Go Bootcamp: Master Golang with 1000+ Exercises and Projects
What you'll learn
- Learn from a Go Contributor
- Learn Go Tips & Tricks that you can't find easily anywhere else
- Go from a total Go beginner to a confident Go programmer
- Practice Go with 1000+ Exercises (with included solutions)
- Understand Go In-Depth with Animated Illustrations (Pass Interviews)
- Learn the Go internals and common Go idioms and best-practices
- Create a Log File Parser that parses log files
- Create a Spam Masker that masks spammy words within a block of text
- Create a command-line Retro Led Clock that shows time
- Create Console Animations, Dictionary Programs, and more
Requirements
- Access to a computer with an internet connection.
Description
Go is a programming language created by Google, and this course is the most intuitive, in-depth, and highest-quality Go course on Udemy, with an insane level of attention to detail. You'll understand both the why and how. We've included thousands of animations, exercises, quizzes, examples, challenges, projects, and so on. By the end of the course, you'll become a confident Go programmer from scratch.
Why should you take this course now?
Watch ultra-detailed, entertaining, intuitive, and easy to understand illustrations and animations.
Solve 1000+ hands-on exercises (solutions are also included).
Create projects including a log parser, file scanner, spam masker, and more.
Learn Go programming tips and tricks that you can't find easily anywhere else.
Learn the Go internals and common Go idioms and best-practices.
Why should you learn Go (aka Golang and Go lang)?
Go is one of the most desired, easy to learn, and the highest paying programming languages. There are 1+ million Go programmers around the world, and the number is increasing each day exponentially. It's been used by Google, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Docker, Kubernetes, Heroku, and many others.
Go is Efficient like C, C++, and Java, and Easy to use like Python and Javascript. It's Open-Source, Simple, Powerful, Efficient, Cross-Platform (OS X, Windows, Linux, ...), Compiled, Garbage-Collected, and Concurrent.
Go is best for Command-line Tools, Web APIs, Distributed Network Applications like Microservices, Database Engines, Big-Data Processing Pipelines, and so on.
What are you going to learn from this course (briefly)?
Go OOP: Interfaces and Methods
Internals of Methods and Interfaces
Functions and Pointers: Program design, pass by value, and addressability.
Implicit interface satisfaction
Type assertion and Type Switch
Empty interface: []interface{} vs interface{}
Value, Pointer, and Nil Receivers
Promoted Methods
Famous Interfaces
Tips about when to use interfaces
fmt.Stringer, sort.Sort, json.Marshaler, json.Unmarshaler, and so on.
Composite Types: Arrays, Slices, Maps, and Structs
Internals of Slices and Maps
Backing array, slice header, capacity, and map header
JSON encoding and decoding, field tags, embedding
Make, copy, full Slice expressions and append mechanics
UTF-8 encoding and decoding
Go Type System Mechanics
Type inference, underlying, predeclared, and unnamed types.
Untyped constants and iota.
Blank Identifier, short declaration, redeclaration, scopes, naming conventions
I/O
Process Command-Line Arguments, printf, working with files, bufio.Scanner, ...
How to create your own Go packages
How to run multiple Go files, and how to use third-party packages
Go tools
Debugging Go code, go doc, and others.
...and more.
Who this course is for:
- Take this course as the best companion to fully understand the official Go Spec and book.
- Beginners who have never programmed before.
- Programmers switching languages to Go.
- Go programmers who want to level up their skills!
- Go programmers who want to learn the internals of slices, maps, interfaces, and so on.
Featured review
Instructors
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 1,115,510 Reviews
- 3,638,785 Students
- 76 Courses
Jose Marcial Portilla has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University and years of experience as a professional instructor and trainer for Data Science, Machine Learning and Python Programming. He has publications and patents in various fields such as microfluidics, materials science, and data science. Over the course of his career he has developed a skill set in analyzing data and he hopes to use his experience in teaching and data science to help other people learn the power of programming, the ability to analyze data, and the skills needed to present the data in clear and beautiful visualizations. Currently he works as the Head of Data Science for Pierian Training and provides in-person data science and python programming training courses to employees working at top companies, including General Electric, Cigna, SalesForce, Starbucks, McKinsey and many more. Feel free to check out the website link to find out more information about training offerings.
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 3,724 Reviews
- 29,485 Students
- 1 Course
#1 "My mission is to make you a world-class expert Go developer"
#2 They say that I've a natural ability to simplify complex topics without dumbing them down.
#3 I believe doing is more important than passively watching. That's why my course includes hundreds of hands-on exercises with full solutions. You'll actively learn rather just watch.
If you sign-up to my course, you'll see what I'm talking about. I'll save you from going through endless books and outdated online tutorials. You'll get your coffee and watch my course and at the end you'll be a professional Go programmer.
SO, WHO AM I?
My name is Inanc and I've 20+ years of programming and mentoring experience.
I'm a professional instructor, mentor and the author of the popular Go blog (Learn Go Programming) with thousands of followers.
As a professional instructor and mentor, I helped hundreds of people to become a paid developer. My students are working at companies like Google, Uber, and so on. I'm also one of the top Go mentors on Codementor.
For the last years, I created visual tutorial series about Go programming and it has became one of the most popular places for developers who want to learn Go.
My students asked me to build a course about Go, and now I'm here.
So, sign up to my course now and be a professional Go programmer. See you in the course!