Go Backend Developer Track - Online Learning with Certificate

Go Backend Developer

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This track is designed for absolute beginners who want to become Go backend developers. It starts from the basics of the Go language and guides you st…

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What you will learn

Understand and write basic Go programs from scratch

Integrate Go applications with SQL databases like PostgreSQL

Design applications using structs, interfaces, and composition following idiomatic Go principles

Organize and manage Go projects using modules

Write and run unit tests using Go's testing framework

Work with core data structures (slices, maps, custom structs) to model backend domains

Build RESTful APIs and handle HTTP requests in Go

Implement concurrency in Go using goroutines and channels

Structure Go backend projects for maintainability, readability, and scalability

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What is Go?

A Brief History of Go

Modifying Variable Values

Constants

Basics of Operators & Expressions

Challenge: Hello World

Challenge: Comments in Go

Challenge: Basics of Variables

Challenge: Constants

Integers

Floating-Point Numbers

Challenge: String Formatting Practice

Comparison Operators

Conditional Statements

Challenge: Practicing For Loop

Declaring and Defining Functions

Local and Global Scopes

Passing Data into the Functions

Return Values from Functions

Multiple Return Values

Passing Functions as Arguments

Challenge: Reviewing Concepts of Functions

Declaring Arrays

Accessing and Modifying Array Elements

Slices

Length vs Capacity

Multi-Dimensional Arrays

Iterating Over Arrays

Passing Variable Number of Arguments into Functions

Passing Arrays into Functions

Challenge: Finding the Largest Element in a Grid

What Are Go Modules?

Initializing a Go Module

Module-Aware Build and Test

Migrating from GOPATH to Modules

Adding and Updating Dependencies

Removing Unused Dependencies

Transitive Dependencies

Dependency Downgrades and Conflict Resolution

Deep Dive into go.mod

Role of go.sum

go.mod File Best Practices

Versioning and Upgrading Modules

Working with Private Modules

Using Module Proxies

Troubleshooting Module Issues

Defining Structs for State

Methods: Attaching Behavior to Structs

Pointer vs Value Receivers

Structs as API Models

Exported vs Unexported Fields

Encapsulating Behavior with Packages

Interfaces for Polymorphism

Designing and Placing Interfaces

Composition Over Inheritance

Struct Embedding for Reuse

Polymorphism via Embedded Interfaces

Common Go Design Anti-Patterns

Understanding Slices

Exploring Maps

Choosing the Right Collection

Implementing Singly Linked Lists

Building Doubly Linked Lists

Stack Implementation and Usage

Queue Implementation and Applications

Binary Tree Structures and Traversal

Creating Custom Hash Tables

Comparing Trees and Hash Tables

What is Concurrency?

Go's Approach to Concurrency

Goroutines: Lightweight Threads

Channels: Communicating Between Goroutines

Launching Multiple Goroutines

Buffered vs Unbuffered Channels

Channel Direction and Closing Channels

Select Statement: Multiplexing Channels

Race Conditions and Data Safety

Mutexes: Locking for Safety

WaitGroups: Waiting for Goroutines

Best Practices for Concurrent Go Code

What is Backend Development?

Go as a Backend Language

Backend Responsibilities in Practice

Backend and Frontend Communication

Overview of Go Web Frameworks

Getting Started with Gin

Building APIs with Echo

Fiber: Fast and Expressive Web Apps

Comparing Gin, Echo, and Fiber

Routing in Go Frameworks

Middleware in Go

Error Handling in Go Backends

Deployment Overview for Go Backends

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