Go: Building 7 Real-World Projects

Master the art of Go programming by working with real-world projects

What you'll learn

By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to create start-up standard projects.

Requirements

You should have some programming experience; this can be in anything from Ruby to C or JavaScript.

Basic knowledge of Go would be an advantage.

To compile and run the code from this course, you will need a computer capable of running an operating system that supports the Go toolset, a list of which can be found at https://golang.org/doc/install#requirements.

Description

If you’re a programmer wanting to build scalable projects, this course is for you. Or if you’re a gopher with an interest in how the language can be applied in interesting ways, this course will meet your need.
 
Google's Go is among the favorites to build software that is reliable and efficient. It simplifies the whole developing process. In short, Go is the language of the Internet age.
 
Go: Building 7 Real-World Projects  exists as a blend of text, videos, code examples, and assessments, which together makes your learning and creating journey all the more fun and worth the cost.
 
This course takes a project-based approach. It starts with the installation but quickly takes you into app building. You’ll create a content management system (CMS) build up of smaller microservices. Then, move on to move on to performing testing and debugging.  This will ensure you're accustomed with the complete journey of an app creation before moving on to building the next projects.
Once, you’ve experienced project building, move on to the next one. Explore how easy building command-line tools is in Go and puts those skills to use to tackle the problem of finding the perfect domain name for our chat application. Then, prepare for the future of democracy by building a highly scalable Twitter polling and vote counting engine powered by NSQ and MongoDB. In the next project, expose capabilities through a JSON web service.
 
Further on, learn how to consume the Google Places API to generate a location-based random recommendations API that represents a fun way to explore any area. In the next project, build a simple but powerful filesystem backup tool for your code projects. Finally, build the API backend for a question and answer service similar to Stack Overflow or Quora.
 
 
By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to create start-up standard projects.
The goal of this course is to make you a skilled Go programmer.
 
This course is authored by some of the best in the field.
Ben TranterBen Tranter is a developer with nearly six years’ experience. He has worked with a variety of companies to build applications in Go, in the areas of data mining, web back ends, user authentication services, and developer tools, and is a contributor to a variety of open source Go projects.
Rostislav Dzinko
Rostislav Dzinko is a software architect who has been working in the software development industry for more than six years. He was one of the first developers who started working with the Go language far earlier than the first official public release of Go 1.0 took place.


Mat Ryer
Mat Ryer has been programming computers since he was 6 years old; he and his father would build games and programs, first in BASIC on a ZX Spectrum and then in AmigaBASIC and AMOS on Commodore Amiga. Many hours were spent on manually copying the code from Amiga Format magazine and tweaking variables or moving GOTO statements around to see what might happen.
Mat is a regular speaker at Go conferences around the world and encourages people to come up and introduce themselves if their paths ever cross.


Overview

Section 1: Introducing the Go Programming Language

Lecture 1 Project showcase of CMS

Lecture 2 Installing Go

Section 2: Creating a Simple Website

Lecture 3 A simple static file server

Lecture 4 Accepting command-line arguments

Lecture 5 Compiling to a statistically-linked library

Section 3: Building a Content Management System Dashboard

Lecture 6 Dynamic content with Go

Lecture 7 Handling GET and POST requests

Lecture 8 Connecting to a database

Lecture 9 Writing tests in Go

Section 4: Capturing Web Analytics

Lecture 10 Variadic functions, function chaining, and callbacks

Lecture 11 Logging and analytics

Lecture 12 Error handling

Lecture 13 Advanced middleware

Section 5: Building a User Login/Authentication System

Lecture 14 Usernames and passwords

Lecture 15 The password reset e-mail

Lecture 16 Sessions

Lecture 17 Sessionless, passwordless authentication

Lecture 18 Web application security

Section 6: Exposing Data through a REST API

Lecture 19 JSON in Go

Lecture 20 Streams and JSON

Lecture 21 Buffers

Lecture 22 Image handling

Section 7: Writing a Real-Time Chat Server

Lecture 23 Concurrency

Lecture 24 A simple chat server

Lecture 25 An advanced chat server

Lecture 26 Real-time notifications

Section 8: Deploying Your Application – Automatically

Lecture 27 Deployment options

Lecture 28 Automated deployments

Lecture 29 Continuous integration

Section 9: Advanced Debugging and Testing

Lecture 30 Debugging

Lecture 31 Reflection

Lecture 32 Performance

Section 10: Command-Line Tools to Find Domain Names

Lecture 33 Command-line tools

Section 11: Building Distributed Systems and Working with Flexible Data

Lecture 34 Distributed systems and flexible data

Section 12: Exposing Data and Functionality through a RESTful Data Web Service API

Lecture 35 Exposing Data and Functionality

Section 13: Random Recommendations Web Service

Lecture 36 Generating random recommendations

Section 14: Filesystem Backup

Lecture 37 Creating filesystem backup

Section 15: Building a Q&A Application for Google App Engine

Lecture 38 Google App Engine and a Q&A application

Section 16: Capstone project

Lecture 39 Project

If you’re a programmer wanting to build scalable projects, this course is for you.,If you’re a gopher with an interest in how the language can be applied in interesting ways, this course will meet your need.