This book will teach you how to write professional code in Go by creating useful tools and interesting projects. Each mini-project covers key practical skills, including testing and documenting code. You will make architectural decisions and organize code so that it remains understandable and maintainable. Everything you learn can be easily scaled to full-fledged applications in Go.
Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects
Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects is a self-paced course by Aliénor Latour, Donia Chaiehloudj, Pascal Bertrand. This book will teach you how to write professional code in Go by creating useful tools and interesting projects.
Course facts
- Lessons
- 0
- Duration
- self-paced
- Level
- All levels
- Language
- English
- Updated
- Instructor
- Aliénor Latour, Donia Chaiehloudj, Pascal Bertrand
- Price
- Premium
In the book "Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects" you will develop 11 small tools and applications, including:
- A currency conversion application
- A health tracking program
- A load balancer for distributing tasks among cloud workers
- An HTML template
- A microcontroller-based temperature monitor
- …and much more!
About the technology
Go combines the power of system languages like C and Rust with the ease of development thanks to built-in garbage collection and a powerful standard library. Millions of developers choose Go for its coding speed, convenient dependency management, and ease of reading and maintaining programs.
About the book
"Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects" will help you master essential aspects of programming in Go - from idiomatic syntax to writing microservices. You will create useful and easily implementable projects that will enhance your Go toolkit. Learn to develop command-line utilities, Wordle-style games, work with external APIs, use the TinyGo compiler for embedded systems, and much more. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop standalone, deployable, and scalable applications in Go with ease!
Who teaches Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects?
Aliénor Latour
Aliénor Latour is a software engineer and Go educator. The CourseFlix listing carries Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects — a Go course built around finished small projects rather than long abstract tutorials, suited for developers picking up the language while building muscle memory through practice.
Material is paid and aimed at developers from other backgrounds picking up Go for back-end or systems work. For a wider Go syllabus on CourseFlix, see the full Golang category page.
Donia Chaiehloudj
Donia Chaiehloudj is a software engineer and Go educator publishing project-based introductions to the Go programming language.
Her CourseFlix listing carries Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects — a Go course built around a series of small, finished projects rather than long abstract tutorials. The format suits developers picking up the language while building muscle memory through practice.
Material is paid and aimed at developers from other backgrounds picking up Go for back-end or systems work. For a broader Go syllabus, see CourseFlix's full Golang category page where this course sits alongside other Go material from instructors like Bill Kennedy (Ardan Labs) and the Go community.
Pascal Bertrand
Pascal Bertrand is a Go developer and educator focused on small, project-based Go tutorials.
His CourseFlix listing carries Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects — a Go course built around finished small projects rather than abstract tutorials, suited for developers picking up the language while building muscle memory.
Material is paid and aimed at developers from other backgrounds adopting Go for back-end or systems work. For a wider Go syllabus, see CourseFlix's full Golang category page where this course sits alongside other Go material.
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