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Go

A simple, fast, compiled language built for concurrency

Learn Go's syntax, structs, and goroutines.

8

Chapters

17

Hours (estimated)

1

Self-paced

Part-time

About 6 weeks

1 hour a day, 3 days a week

Full-time

About 2 weeks

3 hours a day, 3 days a week

Estimated from 8 chapters (notes, practice, labs, quiz, exercise, and challenge) plus the final exam. Go at your own pace.

Curriculum

8 chapters, each with a tutorial, a live example, a quiz, an exercise, a challenge, and class practice.

  1. 1

    Introduction to Go

    Simplicity, compilation, and Go's design goals.

  2. 2

    Variables & Types

    Declarations, type inference, and basic types.

  3. 3

    Control Flow

    if/else, for (Go's only loop), and switch.

  4. 4

    Functions

    Multiple return values and named returns.

  5. 5

    Structs

    Grouping related fields into a type.

  6. 6

    Slices & Maps

    Go's dynamic array and hash map types.

  7. 7

    Goroutines

    Lightweight concurrency with go and channels.

  8. 8

    Error Handling

    Go's explicit, no-exceptions error pattern.

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Go is free to study, self-paced. Pass the final exam to earn an optional Certificate of Completion for $40.