Free Course: Learn How To Code: Google's Go (golang) Programming Language

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.
The credentials of Go are unsurpassed.

But why did Google create a new language?

In Google’s words, “Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming. Programming had become too difficult and the choice of languages was partly to blame. One had to choose either efficient compilation, efficient execution, or ease of programming; all three were not available in the same mainstream language. Programmers who could were choosing ease over safety and efficiency by moving to dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript rather than C++ or, to a lesser extent, Java. Go is an attempt to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language. It also aims to be modern, with support for networked and multicore computing. Finally, working with Go is intended to be fast: it should take at most a few seconds to build a large executable on a single computer. To meet these goals required addressing a number of linguistic issues: an expressive but lightweight type system; concurrency and garbage collection; rigid dependency specification; and so on. These cannot be addressed well by libraries or tools; a new language was called for.”
In my opinion, Go is the best programming language that you can be learning today. I began programming in 1982 with BASIC, I have worked with many languages, and Go is the best language which I have ever used.
Come learn about one of the greatest languages ever created. You will leave with resources and code samples to start making all of your software and apps really go.

What are the requirements?

No prerequisite knowledge is required to take this course. This course starts at the very beginning and will teach you everything you need to know to be an outstanding programmer.

What am I going to get from this course?

Over 169 lectures and 21 hours of content!
Learn how computers work
Learn the fundamentals of programming
Learn modern best-practices for programming
Learn from a University Professor in Computer Science with over 15 years of experience teaching individuals of all ability levels
Understand why the Go programming language is the best programming language you can learn today
Acquire additional valuable programming skills including understanding environment variables, using a command line interface (CLI) terminal, understanding SHA-1 checksums, working with GitHub, and increasing your productivity with an integrated development environment (IDE) such as Webstorm or Atom.io

What is the target audience?

This is a first semester university level programming course.
This course is ideal for beginners wanting to learn programming.
This course is perfect for experienced programmers wanting a thorough introduction to the Go programming language.
This course is perfect for experienced programmers wanting to fill in gaps in their programming knowledge