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Free online courseGolang Programming Course: Go Fundamentals to Concurrency and HTTP Servers

Duration of the online course: 20 hours and 36 minutes

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Free Go course from fundamentals to concurrency and HTTP servers. Learn modules, interfaces, testing, generics, and scalable API design.

In this free course, learn about

  • Getting Started with Go
  • Core Language Fundamentals
  • Working with Data Structures
  • Functions, Methods, and Interfaces
  • Testing, Benchmarks, and Packaging
  • Concurrency and Server-Side Go
  • Advanced Go Features and API Design

Course Description

Learn Go from the ground up with this free online Golang programming course focused on modern, practical development. Start with a clear introduction to the language and quickly move into writing real Go code with solid project structure, packages, and modules.

Build strong fundamentals by mastering lexical elements, types, variables, constants, expressions, and statements. Develop reliable programs with idiomatic error handling, best practices, and a thorough understanding of panic and recovery. Dive deeper into Go’s type system and key data structures, including slices and maps, while avoiding common slice pitfalls. Strengthen your design skills with functions, methods, and interfaces, then expand into advanced topics like memory allocations, alignment, and writing effective tests.

Level up performance and maintainability through benchmarking and clean package organization, then deepen your understanding of modules and dependency management. Explore Go’s concurrency model with goroutines and channels, and learn to coordinate work safely using essential standard library tools such as context and sync. Finally, apply these skills to backend development by creating HTTP servers and routing requests, and get up to speed with generics and approaches for designing flexible, scalable APIs. Ideal for developers who want a structured path from Go basics to concurrent services and HTTP server development.

Course content

  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 1: Inspirational Introduction to the Go Programming language 1h04m
  • Exercise: In Go, what is the recommended way to handle errors from functions?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 2: How to start writing Go code, structure, modules introduction 58m
  • Exercise: What is the primary benefit of using Go modules compared to the legacy GOPATH-based workflow?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 3: Lexical elements, literals, primitives, variables, constants, etc. 58m
  • Exercise: In Go, why must the opening curly brace { usually be on the same line as the function signature or control statement?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 4: Expressions and Statements 1h00m
  • Exercise: In Go, why is it dangerous to take the address of the value variable in a "for range" loop?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 5: Error handling and best practices, panic, and recovery 58m
  • Exercise: In Go, what is the recommended way to add context while wrapping an existing error using the standard library?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 6: Type system in Go: overview 57m
  • Exercise: What is the key difference between a type definition and a type alias in Go?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 7: An in-depth look at Slices and Maps 1h03m
  • Exercise: Which statement about Go maps is correct regarding concurrent access?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 8: Slice Gotchas. Struct types in Go 1h09m
  • Exercise: Why might appending to a slice inside a function NOT affect the caller’s slice variable?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 9: Functions and Methods in Go. Introduction to Interfaces - Part 1/2 1h02m
  • Exercise: In Go, what is the key difference between a method with a pointer receiver and a method with a value receiver?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 10: Interfaces in Go - Part 2/2 1h16m
  • Exercise: Which approach is considered idiomatic in Go when designing APIs that need flexibility via interfaces?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 11: Memory allocations and alignment. Testing in Go - Part 1/2 1h10m
  • Exercise: In Go, what is the recommended approach to avoid interface pollution when designing a package API?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 12: Testing - Part 2/2 46m
  • Exercise: In Go testing, what is the key difference between the testify packages require and assert?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 13: Benchmarks in Go. Packages in Go 1h08m
  • Exercise: In Go, how should a typical benchmark be structured to measure a function’s performance correctly?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 14: Modules in Go 1h14m
  • Exercise: In Go modules, what is a module primarily used for?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 15: Goroutines, channels 1h02m
  • Exercise: What is the key behavior of an unbuffered (capacity 0) channel in Go?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 16: Most useful packages: context, sync 1h14m
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 17: HTTP servers and routers 1h20m
  • Exercise: Which set of capabilities does Go’s context package primarily provide?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 18: Generics in Go 1h06m
  • Exercise: In Go generics, which built-in type constraint is commonly used to ensure a map key supports == and !=?
  • Video class: Golang Course - Session 19: Possible ways to design flexible APIs in Go 1h01m
  • Exercise: Which Go API design guideline helps avoid unnecessary interface abstractions and reduces interface pollution?

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