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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Getting Started with Go by University of California, Irvine

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About the Course

Learn the basics of Go, an open source programming language originally developed by a team at Google and enhanced by many contributors from the open source community. This course is designed for individuals with previous programming experience using such languages as C, Python, or Java, and covers the fundamental elements of Go. Topics include data types, protocols, formats, and writing code that incorporates RFCs and JSON. Most importantly, you’ll have a chance to practice writing Go programs and receive feedback from your peers. Upon completing this course, you'll be able to implement simple Go programs, which will prepare you for subsequent study at a more advanced level....

Top reviews

JP

Apr 4, 2020

Great intro. If you already know the basics, you probably don't need this course though. Not much of a deep dive, more of a "skim the surface" type course. Week 4 on IO was the most beneficial for me.

AN

Oct 23, 2020

Very detailed, nice introduction to golang's basic concepts. Might need to google to find better ways to handle some requirements of the assignments, but overall a cool programming language to learn.

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By Sebastien D

Jan 4, 2019

Don't go enough deep on some topic like JSON where you can choose which field can be exported from a struct, or about tags, to make sure all the exported variables in JSON are lowercase as JSON don't like keys starting with capitals.

By 江祖榮

Mar 1, 2021

Good introduction on Golang's new-feature and difference comparison between other high-level language.

The only disadvantage is that students have to wait unknown peer-review progress during each milestone assignment per week.

By Sebastian R

Oct 19, 2019

Clearer assignments would have made some things more straight forward. Some more coding examples during the courses would have been appreciated, now there is a bit too much of powerpoint. Otherwise great course and structure!

By Amir S

Jan 22, 2021

It is a good introduction. But there are some minor mistakes in the presentation and the assignments some times are ambiguous, requiring us to use features of the language that have not been taught yet like buffered IO.

By Brian U M F

Jul 23, 2022

This is a good course if you already know how to program, especially C or Python.

If you like to make your own research and not to be contained all content within the course, you will find it challenging and enjoyable.

By Ivan B

Jan 28, 2019

The course is quite short and informative, and quite fast-paced because of it. This is good. The downside is that in some of course tasks the description is quite misleading and there is no feedback from the creators.

By Jeremiah M

Oct 9, 2019

This is a solid overview of Golang. I would recommend doing this alongside personal projects or other books. The assignments don't offer the complexity to really get into why one would use Go over any other language.

By Robert M L

Sep 7, 2022

I'm happy I took this course. It was a bit basic and not too much philosophy. This is both good and bad. But, I did learn some things. I'm continuing with the other two courses in the golang series.

By Andrei S

Jul 15, 2020

Peer review of assignments may be slow and not consistent. Reviewers also do not leave meaningful feedback. It would be much better to make automatic check of programming assignments.

By Shlomi S

Feb 8, 2020

The instructor is great! The course was a bit too basic in my opinion, and even though it targets experienced developers, some basic concepts were explained for too long.

By Jason K

Nov 18, 2020

Some of the assignment instructions were unclear. The one that people were most confused about was read.go, but there were others, as I could see from the discussions.

By Tim C

Jun 15, 2020

Ok general introduction, some of the code was hard to follow along with because it wouldn't compile as typed, which was a bit confusing, but eventually figured it out.

By Anh D

Oct 30, 2019

Current version of Golang is 1.13. The section about project structure and workspace should be updated because now we can use Go module to manage source and packages.

By Ali S K

Mar 10, 2023

Very good course to getting started with Go. Easy to understand and good assignments for the beginning. Peer-grading the assignments is a point which i don't like.

By Frank H

Mar 21, 2022

Would be nice if there were some demo code in *files* specifically that we could download and run? That might be helpful since all demo code given were in snippets.

By Anaet H R

Jan 6, 2020

The course as a beginner will be confused. If you don't have Prior Programming experience then it will be hard to understand the course. Otherwise a Great course.

By Cristian I A C

Jan 11, 2022

I think you should explain more about how to code with examples, I didn't have a problem because I have a lot of experience but the new developers will have it.

By Ronaldo V

Jul 19, 2020

As a experienced developer wanting to delve into Go, I found the content great. If the assignment descriptions were less ambiguous, this would be a 5 star.

By daniel b

Sep 5, 2021

Good, but I had to learn from other resources how to manage my source files, packages and go modules, it would've been nice to have this in the course

By Michael K

Feb 7, 2021

Great Course, really enjoyed the lectures! I think the assignments may need to reviewed and made slightly more detailed as there are some ambiguities.

By Vaibhav K

Oct 3, 2020

It was a good course but I found out that at one place, syntax was wrong and for complete code I was forced to look up on the internet many times.

By Christopher B

Jul 3, 2020

Needs updating. Should point to the Go Language's stdlib documentation. I liked how it kind of let you discover how to write the assignments.

By Jamie P

Aug 15, 2019

Course is good. Peer reviews aren't great. You could have a bot do what other students do. I'd prefer someone experienced to mark my work.

By Yukihiro F

Apr 26, 2023

サンプルコードで結構大事なところを間違っていたりして、全体的に作り込みは甘い印象。

単純なプログラミング課題なのにピアレビューの形式を採用しているのはマイナス。

イラつくところもあるがGo言語の基本は学べる。

Go言語と直接関係のないビデオは、興味が無ければ飛ばすと良いだろう。

By Rashmil P

Jun 19, 2020

The course was really helpful the only thing is it would be great to cover how to take inputs from the user in various formats.