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

Undergraduate in IT been in the field for more then 5 years

Hello all. The OMSCS program has really caught my attention as an opportunity to further grow into the computer science/development field something I have been more and more interested in while continuing to work and have the added benefit of a lower then normal tuition fee. The one thing that is worrying me as I complete the application(I am at references now), is the reliance on having a CS background to be successful. For some background I did my undergraduate in Information systems which included several development classes but no hardcore CS classes on data structures, algorithms and such. My current role in my company is a dev ops engineer which blends aspects of operations and development, I work 40 hour weeks(salary) with some remote days which helps. I work on a day to day basis with networks, availability, ci/cd and just overall working with developers to push services to production, monitoring hen and making them as reliable as possible. I have for the past several years also been dedicated to self teaching through certifications(red hat certs, thinking of doing a kubernetes cert) and just having the habit of going home or staying later then usual at work to study up on programming languages and the works(currently focusing on Go). A masters degree is something I always knew I wanted to do but as I start to enter my later 20's having graduated about 4 years ago its now something I feel like achieving now before focusing on a family, buying a house etc. My question is then for those that might not have a CS background (and even those that do) and got accepted how do you feel about the program? I lean more towards the Computational Systems specialization just because I feel like the classes line up more with what I like. Thank you for any feedback in advance.

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5 years background includes starting in a helpdesk role and moving my way up to Systems engineering role, later Site reliability engineering for an eCommerce company and finally now working as a Devops engineer.

Working through this right now, it’s excellent! https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/

I was in the same boat as you about a month ago. I tried a couple of options before I tried this course that came highly recommend. If you have any TypeScript experience, it will come in handy.

Here is the link: https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/

The course is long but it's very thorough and the instructor does a great job at breaking everything down.

I learned a lot from Todd McLeod's Golang Udemy course https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/

I would recommend this course on Udemy. I am going through it now.

https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/

It costs 13 USD but I’ve been going through this course and I love it so far. Very thorough but engaging. Worth every penny so far.

I have used this course by Todd McLeod and have enjoyed it https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/. There are a few things I wish he would do different as in having actual projects to work toward. In general, it’s good to start learning the language and playing with it

https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/ - slow paced, but pretty good

Todd McLeod, will keep you really interested.

Edit:

https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/

I'm doing Todd McLeod's Course on Udemy

Can recommend, Todd is a good teacher and a fun time.

https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/

This is a good starting point, golang can be used to build scalable web applications and gui Apps with web assembly

https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/

I'd highly suggest you check out gophercises - https://gophercises.com/

This is a set of 20 projects, where you're given requirements and you're on your own.

In my opinion, this is WAY better than any course, which only consists of lectures without any exercises. You learn programming by programming.

After you go through those, I'd suggest you check out Web Development with Go which is by the same guy who did gophercises.

Don't take the most popular course on Go, which is Todd McLeod's Udemy course.

In my opinion, it is very bad as it only covers syntax & includes a few exercises like e.g. print hello world, print 1 2 3. Ok great, now you're good to go!

no joy, I only have this one: https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/

I can recommend: https://github.com/astaxie/build-web-application-with-golang

https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go

https://roadmap.sh/devops

Algunas cosas se pueden saltear.

Yo te diria que hagas: Curso de Go
Cursos de AWS (los 3 associate) con Adrian Cantrill
Y despues terraform, la verdad no hay tan buenos cursos de terraform como para recomendar, leer documentacion y mirar repositorios de cloudposse...

Y empezar a codear lambdas en Go con el SDK de aws

To be fair, I think they're doing a good job with WSL (especially WSL2), and it, IMO, is amazing!

But yeah, the issue with Windows is all these corporate policies attached to it; I guess if you do the same to Linux, it would such as well.

As for Go, I've been following so many resources that I can't point out a single one, but here are a few that comes to mind: - Udemy's Learn How To Code: Google's Go (golang) Programming Language - YouTube channel Golang Dojo - YouTube channel TutorialEdge; he has paid courses as well, I haven't got a chance to try, but I'm pretty sure they're worth it - YouTube channel TECH SCHOOL

These are just a few, I'm sure there are MANY MORE that I missed or don't know about

Basically I took all the regular programming classes and of course they had few frontend classes but my brother pushed JavaScript on me. This was like 2012-2014??? (I think) and this was right around when there was a giant explosion of js frameworks that came out. And I was building databases and templating to them in .net and php and so I was hearing all about this restful stuff. But I didn't learn that in school and the js frameworks at the time we're not going for that. When I had summers and didn't take summer programming classes cause I took them all, I would try out new stuff. Like really sit there every day with an energy drink and sit in the basement of the library and just go at it learning python Django or flask and whatever js stuff my brother thought was neat. I also was just trying to build things in plain js. I was also filling the school void with all the online classes as well. Eventually angularjs caught my eye and I started to learn it. Scope. This and that. Then angular2 beta came out and rocked the world. At this point though I was mixing jQuery with greensock.js and different css frameworks having one class name for them to call but angular 2 changed it all. Before they had .html files and cli you had to make them all and connect them. I thought this was really it.

Then came routes and I really liked that and was learning it in python. I attempted to mix the two but I didn't really know rest and so I was make two apps in one and not realizing it. I realized really quickly in python Django that things get really messy and copy pasting code in a big python framework is not fun at all. Eventually I was able to get some what of a API but accepting one, there just wasn't much docs or videos on that at the time. Plus, nil derefrencing in a giant python framework was not fun and would give you terrible error messages. I eventually gave up on python after spending a couple of weeks on it.

The angular 2 was all good till they pulled routing out on an update. I was just pissed. I spent weeks on this and for them to just pull it, put me over the edge. I told everyone I hated it. And I would here some what about dart and go and think it's prolly just some Java Google magic and it prolly just does crazy stuff in one line and you'll never know what. So I just didn't look. So I started learning more css object oriented stuff and atoms approach and by this time school started again with really hard php and .net magic classes and I just couldn't care. I still did the classes but it felt like shackles after all the js and python stuff I learned.

So then I saw react js and kinda liked that and just went back to vanilla js and standard css stuff but I was just kinda depressed with all the time I used on trying to learn stuff. I eventually said okay I'm just gonna do this restful stuff on python just to have a working example. Well...a few scraped projects later, it kinda happened but not really. Not in the way I had full control and a mental model. Eventually my brother sent me a thing on go that kinda made me think. Was actually this article.

https://link.medium.com/HwIaiqgEaZ

Which I started to learn about it's creators and thought well I can't seem to get it in other languages so why not try. I was just like fed up to the max. And my first experiences with a type strict language was kinda rough. I was like almost trying to write js or python in the go playground and it was not pretty but I was like well.... Idk maybe there's a reason every line keeps crashing things cause these creators are good. And so I came across Todd mcloed videos.

https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/

And he really took the edge off of learning go. Was a very nice step by step. He has another course.

I think they are like the same kinda.

https://www.udemy.com/go-programming-language/

And that kinda got the ball rolling because I had a mental model of the code, there was no js fatigue like https://link.medium.com/zqaeBDMEaZ

And I could finally do my RESTFUL APIs!

And ever since then I've been going back and forth between angular and go. I eventually made notes too along the way with go and angular.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zb9GCWPKeEJ4Dyn2TkT-O3wJ8AFc-IMxZzTugNCjr-8/edit?usp=drivesdk

And I never looked back. I now work with php and vanilla js but I can see all the needs for go and angular in them, which gives me a lot of perspective. But so did all my classes and learning python.

I guess the lesson of the story is just do what your brain wants and if you feel something is really wrong then it really is, you just don't know it yet.

I'm watching Nic Jackson's Building Microservices with Go series on YouTube. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmD8u-IFdreyh6EUfevBcbiuCKzFk0EW_. I highly recommend watching.

There are many great courses on Udemy for getting started with the language. I like the Go Bootcamp (https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-go-the-complete-bootcamp-course-golang/learn/lecture/14672434#overview) and Todd McLeod's How to Code: Google's Go (https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-code/).