Let's go!

An immersive, introductory course to backend software engineering using go.

Requirements

Before you start this course, there's a few things we assume you've done:

• You're familiar with the essentials of writing code in JavaScript
• You have experience with JavaScript in the browser and in Node
• You've completed the Tour of Go

This is important because we don't cover the basic language features of Go: you need to be familiar with writing Go functions and methods, plus the basics of types in Go. You'll also need to to navigate packages and documentation.

Remember: you can always Google or ask for help if you get stuck.

Projects

This course is structured into self-contained projects that you can work through at your own pace.

Each project has its own directory with a README.md file that has instructions. If you want to take a look at one way of completing an exercise, there's some code waiting in an associated Pull Request for you to look at. Try not to copy!

1. CLI & Files — impl/cat-ls
   An introduction to building things with Go by replicating the unix tools cat and ls.
2. Servers & HTTP requests - impl/http-auth
   Learn about long-running processes, HTTP and curl.
3. Servers & Databases - impl/server-database
   Build a server that takes data from a database and serves it in json format.

Authors

• Tom Ashworth
• Daniel Wagner-Hall

Feel free to ask for help in the CYF Slack!