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About the Course

Learn the basics of Go, an open source programming language originally developed by a team at Google and enhanced by many contributors from the open source community. This course is designed for individuals with previous programming experience using such languages as C, Python, or Java, and covers the fundamental elements of Go. Topics include data types, protocols, formats, and writing code that incorporates RFCs and JSON. Most importantly, you’ll have a chance to practice writing Go programs and receive feedback from your peers. Upon completing this course, you'll be able to implement simple Go programs, which will prepare you for subsequent study at a more advanced level....

Top reviews

JP

Apr 4, 2020

Great intro. If you already know the basics, you probably don't need this course though. Not much of a deep dive, more of a "skim the surface" type course. Week 4 on IO was the most beneficial for me.

AN

Oct 23, 2020

Very detailed, nice introduction to golang's basic concepts. Might need to google to find better ways to handle some requirements of the assignments, but overall a cool programming language to learn.

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By Krishna M A

Nov 16, 2019

More examples can be added in the videos illustrating basic operations.

By Nafisur A

May 19, 2019

Completely theoretical course. Only assignments are coding practical.

By Michael N

Apr 12, 2020

Too much water, a common blah blah blah blah course for housewives

By Tim W

May 10, 2020

Content reasonably good. Some errors in quizes and assignments.

By Antoine V M

Nov 4, 2021

Too simple for intermediate developers (targetted profile)

By Maksims M

Feb 11, 2020

2 times received incorrect grades from other students.

By Saurabh S

Nov 7, 2019

Sweet and simple introduction to the GoLang.

By Roberto M P

Feb 16, 2020

The grading systems is somehow inefficient.

By Tiago O V

May 16, 2023

It's basic, I expected to cover more stuff

By Luke S

Oct 20, 2018

This course is a little too basic & slow.

By Suhas B

Oct 18, 2023

Very basic, need more hands on examples.

By Giorgio B

Apr 14, 2024

The course is well done, but too easy

By Fanchao C

Dec 6, 2020

To many coding errors on the slides!

By Petr N

Feb 12, 2020

Assignments are super weird

By ildukim

Dec 22, 2018

Too basic.

By Conor T

Dec 7, 2022

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By m z

Aug 29, 2022

transcripts are illegible due to lack of spacing. a lot of verbal redundancy. go reference material links not linked from course description. first assignment wants a screenshot. subsequent ones are peer reviewed and never e.g. programatically compared against test cases as in other coursera courses. some assignment prompts lack detail e.g. why initialize slice to 3 elements when taking in user input and displaying sorted slice?

covers some language basics, no better than exercism's go track which is free https://exercism.org/tracks/go/

By Igor R

Oct 11, 2024

The course is not bad, but there's one major issue: it's super slow. It's called an intermediate course for people who have programming experience, but for some reason, a ton of time in the lectures is spent on obvious things like what for-loops are. Also, there are no slides or any other way to get the info quicker than watching the videos. Unfortunately, for people who do have programming experience this course is mostly a waste of time.

By mashiro w

Nov 3, 2020

Pretty decent course with two flaws:

tagged as an Intermediate course while going from very basic stuff.

most of the assignments can be script graded while using peer review and people just grade it in pure randomness. Somebody just gives you a full point while others grade you on a error handling issue considering the assignment is just a toy program showing you can use a slice or something

By Shly

Feb 13, 2020

Course was very introductory on high-level topics for a class that assumes you are an intermediate or higher programmer. Requirements for weekly assignments were confusing and left a lot of unanswered questions on how certain things should be handled. Peer-based grading clogged the message board with "please grade my assignment" posts and unequal grading standards.

By Deleted A

Jan 3, 2021

Peer grading is the laziest form of grading. Do some work, write unit tests, provide a decent grader. For a so called intermediate level course there is too much bla-bla and too little go specific material. Programming assignments are few are not challenging to say the least.

By yasharnesabian

Sep 19, 2020

This was not a productive course at all! there are many syntaxes problems in the codes which by the way are only shown in the slides, first I tried to learn go using this course but now I decided to learn go using other online resources

By Paul R

Feb 15, 2021

The code assignments should be graded through unit tests not peer reviewed, I had code that was working and unit tested (so I knew it worked) and someone graded that is didn't work, which was incorrect.

By Peter M

Aug 24, 2020

Why say something in once concise sentence when you can say it in hundreds of words? There is so much unnecessary waffling in all these Go courses. Not to mention mistakes.

By Deleted A

Apr 7, 2020

I expected to see Ian writing and running codes. Just talking like that I think does not help. I took a programming course here and it was far far better.