Getting Started With Golang

15h 19m 14s
English
Paid
April 3, 2024

Learn all the key fundamentals of Go - one of the most in-demand and popular programming languages you can learn these days! Go (or Golang) is a very modern, performant and popular programming language which you can use to build applications, scripts, automations, web servers and APIs and much more! 

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Go was originally invented and developed by a team at Google and whilst Google still heavily uses Go, it's now also very popular outside of Google. Golang regularly scores top placements in Stackoverflow surveys: In 2020, Go was the 5th most loved language according to the Stackoverflow survey.

Hence there was never a better time to get started with go and in this course, you'll learn all the key fundamentals of Go in great depth, step by step and from the ground up.

NO prior Go knowledge is assumed and you will of course learn all key concepts with both theory and practical examples, demo projects and exercises. After finishing this course, you will understand how Go works, how to write Go code and which features Go has to offer. Of course we're also going to build multiple demo projects throughout this course!

In detail, this course will teach you:

  • What Go is and how it works
  • The general Go syntax and rules
  • Key basics like working with values & variables
  • All about Go's value types, how they differ and how you use them
  • How to write functions with Go
  • "Special features" like multiple return values in functions
  • How to organize your code into packages and modules
  • How to work with third-party modules
  • How to run and build Go programs
  • All about controlling code flow with conditionals and loops
  • More complex data types like structs
  • Collection value types like arrays, slices and maps (+ how and when to use them)
  • A highly understandable explanation of "Pointers"
  • And so much more!

This course doesn't assume any prior Go knowledge and will turn you into a Go developer in a matter of hours!

I'd love to start this journey together with you! :)

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# Title Duration
1 Welcome To The Course 01:01
2 What Is Go? 06:13
3 Why Would You Use Go? 03:53
4 Installing Go 03:56
5 Code Editor Setup (VS Code) 02:41
6 Finishing Editor Config & First Go Code 06:54
7 Basic Programming Knowledge Helps! 01:56
8 About This Course 02:22
9 How To Get The Most Out Of This Course 03:51
10 Module Introduction 01:27
11 Base Syntax & Language Features 09:09
12 Getting Started With Values & Value Types 05:26
13 Exploring Variables 09:35
14 The "int" Type & Math Operations 08:21
15 Time To Practice: Problem 05:39
16 Time To Practice: Solution 10:25
17 Working With Floats & Type Conversions 07:48
18 float64 vs float32 03:31
19 A Brief Look At "bool", "rune" and "byte" Types 07:11
20 String Operations & Type Clashes 06:27
21 Formatting Strings 11:06
22 Time To Practice: Problem 02:42
23 Time To Practice: Solution 07:37
24 Go Packages & Modules: The Theory 05:34
25 Creating & Using A First Module 05:00
26 Working With Packages & Exports + Imports 09:02
27 Using Constant Values (Constants) 03:55
28 Module Summary 02:53
29 Module Introduction 01:50
30 Creating Our Go Module 04:24
31 Printing Output 03:41
32 Fetching User Input 08:20
33 Cleaning & Parsing User Input 10:16
34 BMI Calculation & Outputting Formatted Strings 03:41
35 Using Constant Values 04:21
36 Splitting Our Code Into Files & Packages 07:39
37 Module Introduction 00:50
38 What Is A "Function"? 03:50
39 Creating A Function & Working With Parameters + Return Values 10:11
40 Practicing Functions 03:44
41 Go Special Feature: Multiple Return Values 07:57
42 Using Named Return Values 03:40
43 Module Summary 01:39
44 Module Introduction 02:53
45 Creating a First Function 03:45
46 Outsourcing The User Input Logic 05:22
47 Finishing the "main" Function Refactoring 05:23
48 Avoiding Code Duplication 06:25
49 Module Summary 01:12
50 Module Introduction 00:47
51 What Are Pointers & Why Do We Have Them? 08:08
52 Creating a First Pointer 05:07
53 Working With Pointers 05:36
54 Advantages Of Pointers (& Disadvantages) 08:48
55 Module Introduction 00:55
56 What & Why + Defining a First Struct 09:26
57 Creating Struct Instances 06:22
58 Creating Structs With "Creation Functions" 03:40
59 Structs & Pointers 04:32
60 Accessing Struct Values 08:43
61 Adding Methods To Structs 07:20
62 Module Summary 04:18
63 Module Introduction 03:07
64 Defining a Struct 03:30
65 Creating Struct Instances 09:45
66 Adding a Method 05:03
67 Reading User Input 14:07
68 Writing To Files 07:54
69 Module Introduction 01:09
70 Introducing Arrays For Storing Lists Of Data 08:03
71 Working With Arrays 06:19
72 Selecting Parts Of Arrays With Slices 03:27
73 More Ways Of Using Slices 02:24
74 Slices - Deep Dive 09:44
75 Creating Dynamic Lists With Slices 09:17
76 Time To Practice - Problem 04:18
77 Time To Practice - Solution 20:11
78 Unpacking List Values 03:30
79 Introducing Maps 06:49
80 Mutating Maps 03:42
81 Maps vs Structs 04:01
82 Module Introduction 01:15
83 Working on the Project Setup 05:35
84 Introducing "if" Statements 03:47
85 More about "if" Statements & Boolean Values (Booleans) 04:41
86 "else" & "else if" 05:09
87 Combining Conditions 04:29
88 Handling Expected Errors 08:11
89 Returning Errors In Functions 03:34
90 Practicing What We Learned 13:51
91 Onwards To "Loops" (and why do we need them?) 05:45
92 Introducing a Basic "for" Loop 05:12
93 A More Useful Loop 02:56
94 Practicing Basic "for" Loops 04:23
95 Go's "while" Loop 09:44
96 Preparing Another Scenario 05:30
97 Looping Through Collections (Arrays, Slices, Maps) 05:23
98 "continue" and "break" 02:34
99 Module Summary 02:48
100 Module Introduction 01:47
101 Planning the App 05:21
102 Initializing The Project 02:13
103 Adding The Core Game Steps & Logic 05:25
104 Outputting Text & Adding a First Package 04:06
105 Keeping Track Of The Active Round 05:00
106 Displaying Available Player Actions 03:39
107 Getting Started With Fetching User Input 06:55
108 Validating & Using User Input 11:06
109 Generating (True) Random Numbers 07:18
110 Adding Logic For Different Actions 07:03
111 Utilizing Constants 05:46
112 Checking For A Winner 11:13
113 Adding the "End Game" Logic 03:51
114 Outputting Round Data (with a Struct) 18:06
115 Managing Multiple Rounds (with a Slice) 05:46
116 Writing To A Log File 10:12
117 Module Summary 01:13
118 Module Introduction 01:18
119 Using Third-Party Modules 10:47
120 Building Go Projects (Standalone Executables) 03:51
121 A Gotcha: Executables & File Paths 07:39
122 Module Introduction 01:31
123 Variables, Scope & Variable Shadowing 07:37
124 "make"ing Values 10:27
125 The "new" Function 07:02
126 new vs make 01:22
127 Working With Custom Types 10:36
128 More On Constants 07:56
129 Module Summary 03:19
130 Module Introduction 01:00
131 Using Functions As Values & Function Types 15:11
132 Returning Functions In Functions 06:22
133 Introducing Anonymous Functions 06:35
134 Working with Closures 06:43
135 Using Recursion 11:21
136 Introducing Variadic Functions 06:48
137 Splitting Slices Into Parameter Lists 03:06
138 Deferring Function Execution with "defer" 09:05
139 Panic! 04:12
140 Module Summary 02:43
141 Module Introduction 00:56
142 What's the Problem? 06:32
143 Interfaces As a Solution (i.e. What are Interfaces?) 06:18
144 Example Time: Built-in Interfaces We Already Used 04:55
145 Interfaces: Rules & Conventions 05:07
146 Empty Interfaces 04:37
147 Flexible Code With Empty Interfaces & Type Switches 11:04
148 Module Summary 01:31
149 Module Introduction 00:45
150 Embedding Interfaces 08:16
151 Embedding Structs 05:59
152 Module Introduction 00:54
153 What Is Concurrency? 01:44
154 Introducing Goroutines 07:46
155 Working With Channels 09:00
156 Reading From A Channel Multiple Times 02:00
157 Transmitting Values Via Channels 08:26
158 Looping Through Channel Values 05:27
159 Using Buffered Channels 07:05
160 Using The "select" Statement 04:10
161 Module Summary 02:44

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