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.