Go Class: 00 Intro and Why Use Go?

This is the introduction to my class on the Go programming language (golang).

I briefly describe the class and then discuss reasons why Go is a good choice for back-end cloud development.

[__nitinkumar__]

Just adding this comment for the people who have started this series.
First: This is the best series on Go, and it's free.
Second: It is almost 21 hours in total. If you watch and do the hands-on with Matt, it should take you more than a week (probably two weeks) to complete.

[sachinmaurya]

It's 2024 and I'm still loving this Videos.

[amerispunk]

Yes, thanks for the quality of these videos. Particularly, I have to applaud your attention to audio quality! So many coding videos use the built-in webcam & mic from a laptop about 4 feet from the instructor in a echo-filled room. Thanks again.

[rgh]

This playlist is one of the best Golang tutorials. Highly recommend it and thanks Matt for sharing this.

[muratkaradas]

Hats off to the instructor for crafting a video that delves into complex topics with such clarity and depth. is a sea of introduction level material, and it's refreshing to find content that goes beyond and truly dissects the inner workings. And your ability to explain advanced concepts is greatly appreciated! 👍

[alexanderalejandre]

I'm posting just to say that your lessons are great and extremely high quality. I have no idea why more people haven't found them yet. But keep going! I'm already comfortable with go, but I've sent your channel to two friends learning. I wish you the best!

[BryceChudomelka]

Love the content. Your stuff is super easy to follow and robust. I would highly recommend this to anyone wanting to learn Go.

[hamzamasood]

"I dont want to point my finger at any particular language in this case IT'S RUBY" 😂

[censorthecarnage]

I'm really thankful for the amazing content in these lectures. I hope you continue making more technical content.

[secure_by_default]

Let me preface this by saying I have a Bachelor’s in Cybersecurity. This course is great if you want to learn go and already have some programming experience. This course is presented very well and in an order that makes sense. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who is looking to learn go and has some previous programming experience. Even if you don’t have experience it should still be good to follow along and google any topic that you don’t understand.

[glennl]

Returning to this video to let people know that the homework series are also neat, even as a viewer. If you don't want to write the "homework", treat it like a lecture because that's how he discusses the homework anyway. Each homework in the series builds on the topics discussed prior to it. Homework #4 and #5 especially are a nice little demonstration of taking naive read/write operations in a REST API (#4), and improving it to avoid race conditions using simple usage of mutexes (#5). He verifies the states of #4 and #5 code using the `-race` option.

Please like this so people see immediately.

[bsyc]

Definitely the best course of Go, Thank you Matt!

[arunupadhyay]

Hello Matt, Really nice way of explaining the topic. the e.g which you take are also too good.
Thanks for been my instructor for GO. Hoping to learn a lot in this Journey with your videos.

[Mr.x.]

starting my transition to cloud engineering with this series. Thanks

[jhonsen]

I came here from Reddit Blog, But when i see the Book of OG i think this is the best place to learn.

[loggerboy]

just finding these videos now cant wait to go through them

[creativecompilations]

Thank u so much for this series... These are my life and Job savers....

[rocknroll]

Thanks so much Matt ! Please upload the video about rest and graphql with go. I really like your videos :)

[Uttkarsh_]

Really love your videos mate!! Well done

[techhub]

Amazing Explanation sir!! Huge respect