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

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

Created by: Jens Schendel
jens schendel — citizen, researcher, tinkerer

What Will I 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
• and much more to get a wide insight into the GO programming language and become a respectable programmer

Requirements

• No previous programming experience is required to participate in this course. This course starts by teaching very basic skills and guides you step by step to become a programmer for Go.
• Knowledge from other programming languages such as C, C++ and Java is helpful but not mandatory.
• Linux knowledge, as well as familiarity with the shell (bash) and git/github for version management can also help.
• For in-depth study of the material from supplied sources, adequate knowledge of English should be brought along.
• Willingness to learn, do practices and a fair amount of curiosity to figure out how things work!

Target audience

• This programming course is suitable for first-year students at the university level as well as for high school and college students.
• Also ideal for beginners who want to learn programming in GO from scratch.
• Equally suitable for advanced programmers who want a thorough introduction to the GO programming language.
• This course is also for experienced programmers who want to fill gaps in their programming knowledge.