The Go Learning Path
One of the most common questions asked is "what's the best way to learn Go?" - Well, this page outlines one potential path forward, starting from the basics, and building your proficiency up slowly.
🔰 Level 1 - Beginner
A strong start can make or break your language learning path. It's important to pace yourself and make your learning habit sustainable.
In this section, take the time you need to become familiar with the syntax and keep asking the question "how does this really work?".
A strong fundamental knowledge of the syntax and some of the hidden foot-guns can really help to accelerate your learning further down the line.
🛠️ Tools
Beginner's Guide to Go
The complete Go course designed to teach you the fundamentals of the Go programming language!
Free Resources
The Tour and Go By Example are renowned resources held with incredibly high regard by most Go developers.
I'd recommend working through all of them, they all complement each other nicely and help solidify concepts.
🔗 Go.dev - A Tour of Go 🔗 Go.dev - Effective Go 🔗 Go By ExampleA fantastic visual roadmap of some of the paths you can take when learning Go.
🔗 Roadmap.sh - The Go PathInteractive Go
Learn Go through interactive, in-browser challenges!
Additional Resources - Free and Premium
These resources are fantastic standalone resources with fantastic feedback from the Golang community. I highly recommend checking them out!
🔗 Learn Go With Tests 🔗 Let's Go - Alex Edwards 🔗 Let's Go Further - Alex Edwards 🏆 Go Challenges💪 Level 2 - Intermediate
Now that you have a handle on the syntax, it's time to level up your skills with some project development.
At this stage of your learning journey, you should be focusing on consolidating what you've learned previously and expanding your breadth of knowledge to include things like the tooling setups, testing, architecture and design patterns.
Your focus should be on building up more complex projects that continuously push your knowledge boundaries. For example, try introducing a database or a queue system in your project and understand how you can architect your app so that it's still testable and maintainable.
🛠️ Tools
The Go Testing Bible
Learn Everything You Need To Know About Testing Production Applications in Go.
Building Production Ready REST APIs in Go - 2nd Edition
Welcome to the second edition of my course on building a production ready REST API in Go!
The Go Data Structures Course
Learn how to work with and implement all of the fundamental data structures in Go!
Additional Resources
The exercism go challenges are a fantastic way to keep your newfound skills sharp.
🏆 Exercism - Go ChallengesYou'll likely also need to master the art of Docker and docker-compose. This has effectively become an essential skill for many developers.
📹 Docker For Beginners🧙♂️ Level 3 - Advanced 🧙♀️
You've mastered the skills needed to write your own Go applications, now it's time to expand your knowledge such and explore technologies and skills that you'll typically need in day-to-day Go development.
Focus on expanding the number of technologies you are comfortable working with and thinking deeply about architecture and code design.
At this stage, I tend to see folk either gravitate towards architecting systems that span multiple services, or really driving deeper into technical details. Both paths are perfectly valid, but try and frame any projects such that they are focused on your own career objectives.
Building gRPC Services in Go
In this course, we cover everything it takes in order to get up and running building your own gRPC services in Go
Go HTTP Client Development Course
Learn how to build HTTP Clients to simplify interfacing with any APIs!
RabbitMQ Crash Course For Go Developers
A crash course to get you up and running quickly with RabbitMQ and Go
Additional Resources
Some additional links and resources you can check in with to help further advance your Go development
📚 Go Wiki: BooksAwesome Go - this is a fantastic resource for browsing all the available tools, courses, libraries specific to Go!
📚 Awesome Go 👨🏫 Ardan Labs - Training and CoursesNote: This page was heavily inspired by Jeffrey Way's fantastic Laracasts site.
Attribution: I'd like to thank Mohamed Allam for their suggestions and contributions to this page!