Learn Go for Developers [Full Course] | Boot.dev (2025)

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Learn the essentials of Go. It's taking development, particularly back-end web development, by storm.

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Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.

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Go is one of the most popular languages this year, and Go developersare among the highest paid in the world. Save yourself months of looking throughdocumentation with this comprehensive introduction. You'll practice writing performant,idiomatic Go with these hands-on lessons and challenges.

Chapter List

1

Variables

Learn the basic syntax for declaring and using variables and why you should use Go in the first place

2

Conditionals

Use if/else statements to control the flow of your program

3

Functions

Learn about how functions behave

4

Structs

Idiomatically model data in Go using structs

5

Interfaces

Master one of Go's most powerful tools: the interface

6

Errors

Learn how Go uniquely handles errors

7

Loops

Practice various algorithms in Go

8

Slices

Learn about Go's take on ordered lists

9

Maps

Go has an answer to Python's sets and dictionaries, we call it a map

10

Pointers

Learn about pointers and their pitfalls

11

Packages and Modules

Learn how go projects are organized on your local machine

12

Channels

Master the #1 reason to use Go: its elegance of concurrent programming

13

Mutexes

Continue learning about concurrency with mutexes

14

Generics

Learn how Go approaches polymorphism with generics: a new feature added in 1.18

15

Enums

Go famously doesn't support proper enums, but we'll go over how Go developers solve the same kinds of problems with the tools they have.

16

Quiz

Learn about go-specific design patterns and fun language facts

Why settle for mediocrity?

The only way to become a great developer is to write a lot of code

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I earned my CS degree several years ago, but was unable to land a coding job. I've completed most of the learning path and I'm ecstatic to report I've started my first full-time software engineering role!

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As a Head of Data Science at a consulting company, I'm always looking to improve my skills. After completing almost all Boot.dev has to offer, I can say it's the ideal choice for backend training.

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Centriam

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I've been working as a postdoc, and ever since getting my feet wet with code I have been interested in transitioning into tech. I recently completed the back-end path on Boot.dev and just landed my first professional development job!

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Freie Universität Berlin

Connecticut, USA

As a senior dev, the Boot.dev courses have helped me land my first Go job at Ardan Labs!

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Ardan Labs

Cássia Brazil

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It's completely up to you. The time it will take you to be "job ready" will depend on how much you already know, how often you study, and how long you study for. That said, the backend career path takes many people about 12 months.

Absolutely! If you built it, use it. You'll build several personal projects while completing our curriculum, and our final course about finding jobs will show you how to construct a job-ready portfolio.

We're not a $10,000 bootcamp.

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We are a self-paced, gamified online learning platform for back-end web development. You can learn with us for the price of a gym membership.

You can demo the first few chapters of each course with full interactivity, but after that you'll be in "guest mode" or "read only" mode. In guest mode you won't be able to complete lessons, take quizzes, or do the interactive parts of the courses.

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You can read all about our methodology here. In a nutshell, we're laser focused on teaching backend-development, which is somewhat of a rarity in online learning. We're also focused on solving what we believe is the hardest problem with online learning: boredom.

If you prefer coding rather than watching, and your struggle with online learning is staying motivated and engaged, we think you'll like learning with us.

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