Golang for Beginners Online Course

Golang for Beginners Online Course

According to industry experts, Golang has emerged as one of the most in-demand skills, powering infrastructure technologies, microservices, and serverless applications for leading SaaS products. This course begins with a deep dive into Go fundamentals, covering structs, slices, operators, loops, functions, and more while building a Nutrition Calculator project. You’ll then progress to Google Trends, where you’ll work with XML, define and parse data, and build functions to fetch and display real trends. Finally, you’ll take on an advanced Google Translate project, mastering concurrency, parallelism, goroutines, channels, and JSON parsing. Through these hands-on projects, you’ll not only gain a strong command of Golang but also develop a robust portfolio to showcase in interviews. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to confidently build scalable, high-performance applications using Go.

Who should take this Course?

The Golang for Beginners Online Course is ideal for students, aspiring developers, and programming enthusiasts who want to learn the fundamentals of Go (Golang) from scratch. It is also suitable for software engineers, backend developers, and IT professionals looking to explore Go’s simplicity, efficiency, and concurrency features to build scalable and high-performance applications.

What you will learn

• Look at the basic overview of GO and the course's planned trajectory
• Learn about structs, slices, packages and libraries before using them
• Look at the briefing before starting any project
• Work around on a project – Nutrition calculator
• Execute and build project on Google Trends
• Work around on a project of Google Translate

Course Outline

Introduction to the Course

• Introduction
• About the Instructor
• Connect with the Author
• Tips on Learning Faster as an Engineer
• What We Will Be Building
• A Caveat

First Project – Nutrition Calculator

• Concepts That Will Be Used
• Project Briefing – What We Will Track
• Project Briefing - Scores and Score Types
• Project Briefing - Units
• Project Briefing - Nutritional Data
• Project Plan
• Project Setup
• The Main File
• Nutritional Score and Other Types
• Nutritional Data Struct
• The Get Nutritional Score Function
• Get Points Methods
• Energy and Sodium Methods
• Points System
• Slices for Steps/ Points
• Get Points from Range Function
• Energy, Sugar and Points
• Points for Sfa, Sodium, Protein, Fiber
• Fruit Points
• Handling Cheese and Beverage
• The Nutri Score Grade
• Quick Revision
• Running the Program

Second Project – Google Trends Project

• Project Briefing – What We will Build
• A Caveat
• The XML File
• The Golang Concepts We Will Apply
• Visual Planning
• Project Setup
• Basic Project Structure
• Items and News Structs
• Visuals for Better Understanding of the Structs
• RSS and Channel Structs
• Data Types for the Struct Variables
• The Red Squiggly Lines
• Working with XML
• Defining XML Data
• Get Google Trends Function
• Read Google Trends Function
• Unmarshalling - Visual Explanation
• The Unmarshal Function
• Printing the Trends
• Testing the Program
• Real-World Applications of This Project

Third Project – Google Translate Project

• What We Are Building
• Our Plan
• The Complication
• The Solution
• Concurrency or Parallelism?
• Sequential Processing
• Parallelism
• Concurrency
• Go-Routines
• Channels
• Without WaitGroups
• With WaitGroups
• Main File
• CLI File
• Introducing Complexity
• Referring the Diagram
• Creating Our Query
• Parsing JSON
• Mod Files
• Running Our Program

Next Steps

• Getting More Advanced in GO
• Goodbye and Thank You