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The Ultimate Go class is an intermediate-level class for companies who have developers with some experience in Go trying to dig deeper into the language. They want to learn internals and make better engineering decisions.

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Ardan Labs offers the “Ultimate Go” class, a 2 or 3 day on-site corporate training for software developers who wants to learn Go (Golang). This class has been designed over the past 3 years and goes beyond just being a language class.

Your team will walk away with philosophies and techniques for solving common problems with a big understanding of “if performance matters” then these things matter.

Course Overview

This class provides an intensive, comprehensive and idiomatic view of the language. There will be very little teaching of syntax and a big focus on learning how to read and understand the code you are writing.

We will talk about semantics, guidelines, mechanical sympathy and data oriented design. We are going to talk about package oriented design and how to structure your Go projects for the long term. We are going to talk about writing concurrent code and how to effectively use channels. Then I will dig into the testing, benchmarking and profile tooling. We will talk a lot about composition and design. We focus on both the specification and implementation of the language, including topics ranging from language syntax, Go’s type system, concurrency, channels, testing and more. We believe this class is perfect for anyone who wants a jump start in learning Go or who wants a more thorough understanding of the language and its internals.

Everyone is going to be mentally exhausted by the end of each day. We will be challenging every student to think about what they are doing and why. In the 3 years we have taught this material, we never had someone not appreciate the class and feel like they are a better developer for it.

Course outline

Mechanical Sympathy
Data Oriented Design
Language Syntax
Arrays, Slices and Maps
Methods, Interfaces and Embedding
Packaging and Exporting
Using Pointers
Composition
Error Handling
Concurrency Overview

Minimal Qualified

The material has been designed to be taught in a classroom environment. The code is well commented but missing some of the contextual concepts and ideas that will be covered in class. Students with the following minimal background will get the most out of the class.

Studied CS in school or has a minimum of two years of experience programming full time professionally.
Familiar with structural and object oriented programming styles.
Has worked with arrays, lists, queues and stacks.
Understands processes, threads and synchronization at a high level.
Operating Systems
- Has worked with a command shell.
- Knows how to maneuver around the file system.
- Understands what environment variables are.

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Testimonials

"Day 1 of the Ultimate Go workshop was outstanding! Big shoutout to @intel, @golangbridge, and @goinggodotnet for bringing this to Portland."

- Kelsey Hightower ( @kelseyhightower )

"Should be mentioned that though I am no expert, I have been using Go for about a year - and this meetup is kicking my ass."

- Matt Oswalt ( @Mierdin )

"OH: "You thought you knew Go..." (You do Go? You want to do Go?) You should take this workshop. Seriously.) "

- Katrina Owen ( @kytrinyx )

"I'd just like to thank you again for just a phenomenal training session. The feedback from everyone was overwhelmingly positive. You probably could tell first hand that there were skeptics at first, but you’ve turned many into golang converts and we are really excited in growing golang adoption internally."

- ACL Services ( @ACLServices )

Testimonials

"Day 1 of the Ultimate Go workshop was outstanding! Big shoutout to @intel, @golangbridge, and @goinggodotnet for bringing this to Portland."

- Kelsey Hightower ( @kelseyhightower )

"Should be mentioned that though I am no expert, I have been using Go for about a year - and this meetup is kicking my ass."

- Matt Oswalt ( @Mierdin )

"OH: "You thought you knew Go..." (You do Go? You want to do Go?) You should take this workshop. Seriously.) "

- Katrina Owen ( @kytrinyx )

- ACL Services ( @ACLServices )

"I attended the one day workshop by Bill Kennedy from Ardan Labs. I was in for a surprise as before the workshop I was concerned whether I would understand concepts and whether I would be able to follow along. Bill has this wonderful way of explaining concepts and his knowledge on the concepts is so good that, I didn’t feel that I was learning something new & complicated. The Go Workshop got me started on the Go language. This workshop is perfect for beginners and anyone who wants to learn more about Go. I highly recommend this."

- Neeru Dwivedi ( @neerumisra )

" I highly recommend William Kennedy / Ardan Lab for Go Training. William is extremely passionate about the Go language and his energy feeds into his training. Very professional, very informative. My favorite section of his training, if I had to pick, was the segment on MultiWriters. I highly recommend a 3 day course, over a 2 day course. Even after the classes were over, William was always responsive with additional questions via various social media channels. "

- Todd Rafferty ( @webrat )

" The Intro to Go Workshop enabled me to come into class with very little knowledge of Go and leave having a firm grasp of the key concepts of the language. Each topic was followed up with hands-on coding problems which helped to solidify what I was learning. My teacher Bill was not only approachable, but very excited about the language and his enthusiasm was contagious. I enjoyed that we talked about some of the lower level implementation details of Go which was something that I had found lacking from some books on the language. Overall I would highly recommend this workshop to anyone looking to learn Go quickly and effectively. "

- Georgi Knox ( @GeorgiCodes )

" Great course and a perfect introduction to Go. Bill is very friendly and extremely knowledgeable about the Go language and I am excited to speak with him about Go in the future. The training had an excellent format with hands on coding examples. After the class I feel as though I have a better understanding of the key concepts, especially how pointers work. I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning more about Go. "

- Jackie Heitzer ( @JackieHeitzer )

" I would consider Ardan Studio’s 3 day course to be invaluable. Bill and his staff, being some of the foremost authorities in the Go language, were able to make many of the complex go topics understandable. Covering everything from memory management, all the way up to building concurrency programs and web API's. It has given me the knowledge to write idiomatic Go, and make the best use of it’s features. I would highly recommend their courses to anyone new to Go, or to anyone wanting to widen their existing knowledge."

- Joshua Shuster ( @naysaier )

" Your training is awesome! Myself and three colleagues recently caught variations of the training at GopherCon and OSCON. We all thought the Bootcamp was the best thing at any of these conferences (and I went to both). Awesome work to Bill for presenting and anyone involved in developing the training. I really liked the structure, emphasis on deeper understanding, _me_ doing a small number of examples to emphasize this, and general content. Night and day to other training which is to often just watching someone else live code. Great work."

- Geoff Clitheroe ( @gclitheroe )

" It was a pleasure taking this course — learning lot of "dry" stuff in such animated and enthusiastic environment. The exercises were spot on for building what you called as "memory muscle”.

"I have good amount of background in conventional multithreaded and distributed environments, but I have not put that knowledge to use more recently; so it was good refresher from that point of view as well. From Yuck to completely Wow-ed is how I will like to describe my respect for Go within three days. I knew nothing about GO before the course."

- Shalab Goel, Ph.D.

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