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Free Udemy Course "Learn How to Code: Google's Go (Golang) Programming Language" $0

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  • 21 Hours
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Course Description
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Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
Go is an amazing choice for a language as it was developed by some of the same individuals who created the C programming language, Unix, and UTF-8 - some of the most influential contributions to computer science. Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson created Go to be a modern language that easily uses multiple cores, easily implements concurrency, easily works in distributed environments, and easily allows the programmer to write programs - it has a very lean and user-friendly syntax.
Go was created by luminaries in computer science at one of the best, if not the very best, software engineering firm to have ever existed - Google.
Learn programming from a University Professor in Computer Science with over 15 years of teaching experience.

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  • akd on 02/05/2016 - 12:53
    +1

    Thanks

  • KLoNe on 02/05/2016 - 13:07
    +2

    (y) keen!

  • loku123 on 02/05/2016 - 13:07
    +1

    Nice find. Thanks.

  • FlatulentFrank on 02/05/2016 - 13:15

    great find

  • pyr0maniac on 02/05/2016 - 13:20
    +1

    fabulous

  • [Deactivated] on 02/05/2016 - 13:30
    +1

    Excellent, thanks OP!

  • tsunamisurfer on 02/05/2016 - 13:43
    +1

    Is prior coding experience required or at least recommended?

    • scrimshaw on 02/05/2016 - 14:14

      None required. Some basic knowledge of how computers work would be helpful, but this is also taught in the lecture.

      You start from the very basics, knowing how to install and use Git, knowing how to install Terminal emulator, set up environment path variables and from then on you start to learn how to use the most basic commands.

      The only thing I'm not sure is whether or not GoLang should be the first language for a complete beginner to learn. There are languages out there that are (subjectively speaking) more fun to learn and easier to pickup, e.g Ruby, Python, Perl and JS.
      However, it is much more future proof and a lot of companies are already using GoLang mainly because its more optimised to run on multi-core CPU platforms.

      • xsacha on 02/05/2016 - 16:49

        If you already know C, is it possible to skip to a certain spot?

        • Russ on 03/05/2016 - 09:58

          I've read the book (see my post below for details), and I'd say no. The language is quite c-like, but the syntax is subtly different in many ways, so you'll have to read through everything just to find the differences.

        • scotty on 03/05/2016 - 11:01

          Yes syntax wise it's similar to C. After all it's designed by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson.

        • xsacha on 03/05/2016 - 13:05

          @scotty: Is it something I should learn before applying to a job that wants Golang? Or is it something I can learn while doing it, with a google sidekick?
          Looking for jobs right now.

        • scotty on 03/05/2016 - 13:14

          @xsacha: If a job requires Golang, then they probably won't want someone who has just started learning it. However it's a relatively simple all-purpose language to pickup — although too simple & pragmatic some language geeks might say.

          I don't think you need a course to learn it. If you already have a few programming languages under your belt you could start with something like Go by Example or Building Web Apps with Go. However the best way to learn a language is NOT watching through videos of online courses but actually make something. Rewrite an existing project in the new language for example. The URL shortner we use here was initially written in PHP + MySQL many years ago and I rewrote it in Golang + AppEngine DataStore as part of learning Go.

        • xsacha on 03/05/2016 - 13:20

          @scotty: Yeah I learnt every other language by just making fun apps. Was going to try a different method.

  • belongsinforums on 02/05/2016 - 14:12
    +4

    Gotta catch em all right

    • BadGiraffe on 02/05/2016 - 16:07
      +7

      I now have 98 courses in my account. Started none. I've thought about it though.

      • joshjosh210 on 03/05/2016 - 09:09
        +2

        Its the thought that counts, right?

  • nikkirose on 02/05/2016 - 14:26
    +1

    nice ty

  • Iqs on 02/05/2016 - 14:26
    -8

    A programming language whose name is based on a company will not have a bright future. Signing up for this course is ok since it is free; however learning this language is just a waste of time.

    • nikkirose on 02/05/2016 - 14:31

      like SKynet, I mean Google, has a time limited future … bahahaha

    • Ryanek on 02/05/2016 - 14:37

      This makes absolutely no sense.

    • congo on 02/05/2016 - 14:50

      what??

    • johnno07 on 02/05/2016 - 18:54

      Learning any programming language is not a waste of time. The more you know the better.

  • whitepa on 02/05/2016 - 19:14
    +1

    Thank you. Been eyeing this off for a few months at least, did not want to pay the $50. Bravo!

  • alan77 on 02/05/2016 - 19:38
    +1

    Thanks nocure!

  • PAOK11 on 02/05/2016 - 21:07

    can i make a website with this ?

    • scotty on 02/05/2016 - 23:14
      +2

      With Golang? Most certainly yes. A tiny bit of OzBargain stack is written in Golang (our URL shortener and Nginx cache purging process).

      • PAOK11 on 02/05/2016 - 23:27

        wow amazing

  • Russ on 02/05/2016 - 21:28

    There is a free "Learn Go Language" app on Google Play too:
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tdt.learng…

    And a free Go (Golang) e-book too:
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timger.gol…

    But I couldn't find a Go compiler or interpreter on the play store.

  • JTR on 03/05/2016 - 01:12

    Thanks, really interesting!

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