Go has become the first language many companies reach when they need fast, scalable, and maintainable software for cloud-based platforms. In this course, Go Fundamentals, you’ll learn the fundamentals of Go software development. First, you’ll explore the core language, such as the use of variables and control flow. Next, you’ll discover how to organize Go programs to maximize their clarity and maintainability. Finally, you’ll learn how to optimize application performance using Go’s elegant concurrency mechanism. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Go needed to write straightforward and performant applications.
Author Name: Mike Van Sickle
Author Description:
Michael Van Sickle is an application architect in Akron, Ohio. He started his career as a mechanical engineer, designing components for the automotive industry, before changing to software engineering. He is passionate about learning new programming languages and is comfortable working in Java, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and F#. Mike also loves learning about user experience design and is taking a lead role in his company’s attempt to make applications that are elegant and simple. When he i… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Getting Up and Running
  36mins
• Variables and Simple Data Types
  55mins
• Creating and Debugging Programs
  30mins
• Aggregate Data Types
  44mins
• Looping
  24mins
• Branching
  50mins
• Organizing Programs
  44mins
• Object Orientation and Polymorphism
  58mins
• Error Management
  34mins
• Concurrent Programming
  37mins
• Testing
  27mins