Learn Go

Name: Learn Go [Full Course]
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Rating: 4.8 (820 reviews)
Author: Lane Wagner

Learn how to program in Go (Golang), the popular open-source programming language maintained by Google.

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Lane Wagner

Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.

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What will you learn?

Master the fundamentals of the Go programming language in this comprehensive interactive course. Go is one of the most popular languages of 2025, and Go developers are among the highest paid in the world. You'll practice writing performant, idiomatic Go with these hands-on lessons, challenges and quizzes.

Chapter List

Variables

Learn the basic syntax for declaring and using variables and why you should use Go in the first place

Conditionals

Use if/else statements to control the flow of your program

Functions

Learn about how functions behave

Structs

Idiomatically model data in Go using structs

Interfaces

Master one of Go's most powerful tools: the interface

Errors

Learn how Go uniquely handles errors

Loops

Practice various algorithms in Go

Slices

Learn about Go's take on ordered lists

Maps

Go has an answer to Python's sets and dictionaries, we call it a map

Pointers

Learn about pointers and their pitfalls

Packages and Modules

Learn how go projects are organized on your local machine

Channels

Master the #1 reason to use Go: its elegance of concurrent programming

Mutexes

Continue learning about concurrency with mutexes

Generics

Learn how Go approaches polymorphism with generics: a new feature added in 1.18

Enums

Go famously doesn't support proper enums, but we'll go over how Go developers solve the same kinds of problems with the tools they have.

Quiz

Learn about go-specific design patterns and fun language facts

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(5/5)

abhihas Balu

United States

This course showed me that go is cooler than c# (except enums)

(5/5)

Caia Andrei

Cluj-Napoca

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(4/5)

Techin

Thailand

very good course, I have never been a fan of learning through text(I always preferred watching video...

(5/5)

John Ayodeji

Nigeria

super

(5/5)

Sauhabah Azip

France

The course is very detailed, and I learned farily quickly how GO works and its syntax

(5/5)

Lorenzo Lanari

Italy

A good introduction to Go. I am now searching for deeper exposure.

(4/5)

Ethan

United States

Worthwhile

(5/5)

Jeff Winkler

United States

Learnt a lot, extremely good starting point

(5/5)

Aayush Talekar

United Kingdom

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Yes! It's free to create an account and start learning. You'll get all the immersive and interactive features for free for a few chapters. After that, if you still haven't paid for a membership, you'll be in read-only (content only) mode.