Go is valued for its speed, simplicity, and safety. The course is based on practical assignments and includes real projects that you can showcase in your portfolio.
What You Will Learn Fundamentals of syntax and data types. Input handling, number conversion, working with big.Int. Creating CLI applications and parsing arguments. Arrays, slices, structs, maps, and working with time. Interfaces and OOP principles in Go. File I/O, working with JSON, CSV, and configuration files. Digital signatures, buffers, and binary data. Concurrent programming with goroutines and channels. Building network applications (client-server chat). Implementing data compression algorithms (Huffman coding).
Course Program 1. Installing and Setting Up Go Installing the language, setting up the environment, handling user input, number conversions, working with big numbers (big.Int).
2. Encryption and Data Handling Implementing XOR cipher, parsing CLI arguments, working with packages, loops, bytes, slices, error handling, Base64 encoding.
3. Arrays, Structs, and File Handling Arrays and slices, structs, loops, chart plotting, working with CSV and JSON, country quiz, and practical exercises.
4. Maps and Advanced OOP in Go Using maps, methods and loggers, creating custom types, working with dates and time, advanced functions.
5. Interfaces and Flexible Code Practical interface examples (e.g., with “cats”), generalizing functions.
6. CLI Applications and Data Protection Cobra library, argument handling, key pair generation, data protection, hands-on implementation.
7. Configs, Signatures, and Binary Data Using Viper for configs, digital signatures, contexts, PEM files, buffers, and binary data.
8. Releases and Automation Integration with Goreleaser, writing documentation, versioning, setting up GitHub Actions, release management.
Who This Course Is For Beginners who want to learn Go from scratch quickly. Developers exploring a new language for backend projects. DevOps engineers and system administrators. Developers working with microservices, networking, and CLI tools.
What You Need to Start A computer with internet access. Installed Go (instructions provided in the course). Basic understanding of programming (recommended but not required).
Learning Outcomes By the end of this course, you will: Be able to confidently write Go code. Create your own CLI utilities and network applications. Understand how to use goroutines and channels for concurrent work. Implement data processing and compression algorithms. Have ready-to-use projects for your portfolio.