Go Certificate

Code to earn a Go certificate that proves your backend engineering skills, built entirely through real-world coding challenges.

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This certification is designed to help you demonstrate your ability to build real-world systems in Go. From backend APIs to concurrent services, Go powers production code at companies like Google, Uber, and Dropbox. In this course, you’ll solve hands-on coding challenges that reflect how Go is used in modern cloud-native stacks. Once you complete all required tasks, you’ll receive a verified certificate that highlights your Go expertise—ideal for resumes, job applications, or professional profiles. This isn’t a theory-based quiz, it’s hands-on coding from start to finish. You’ll write real Go code that’s auto-graded for correctness and performance. Every challenge is designed to test your understanding of Go’s strengths: simplicity, concurrency, and speed.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

How to write idiomatic Go code using structs, interfaces, slices, and maps.

Practical experience with goroutines, channels, and safe concurrent programming.

Error handling strategies and testing practices used in production code.

Building performant, maintainable solutions using Go’s standard library.

Solving backend-style challenges aligned with modern infrastructure and cloud tooling.

How to write idiomatic Go code using structs, interfaces, slices, and maps.

Content

The Basics

10 Lessons

Break down key Go programming concepts, from variable handling and constants to functions, pointers, and mutability.

Variables & inferred typing

Functions and Return values

Pointers

Mutability

Quiz on Go Variables

Types

8 Lessons

Look at Go's basic types, type conversion, structs, and composition over inheritance.

Composition vs Inheritance

Quiz on Types

Exercise on Composition

Collection Types

6 Lessons

Work your way through arrays, slices, range loops, maps, and a map exercise in Go.

Control flow

6 Lessons

Break down the steps to understand Go's control flow structures and exercises.

Methods

5 Lessons

Deepen your knowledge of Go methods, covering receivers, code organization, and type aliasing.

Interfaces

0 Lessons

Tackle interfaces in Go, satisfying them implicitly and handling errors with custom types.

Concurrency

9 Lessons

Master the steps to implement concurrent programming in Go using goroutines, channels, and synchronization.

Get Setup

4 Lessons

Get familiar with Go installation procedures on OSX, Windows, and Linux with essential tools.

Online Coding Challenges

1 Lessons

Get started with enhancing programming skills through collaborative coding challenges and hands-on exercises.

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Tips & Tricks

5 Lessons

Go hands-on with practical projects, package management, maps, compiler optimization, and constants in Go.

Developed by MAANG Engineers

Every Educative lesson is designed by a team of ex-MAANG software engineers and PhD computer science educators, and developed in consultation with developers and data scientists working at Meta, Google, and more. Our mission is to get you hands-on with the necessary skills to stay ahead in a constantly changing industry. No video, no fluff. Just interactive, project-based learning with personalized feedback that adapts to your goals and experience.

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Personalized Interview Prep

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Mock Interviews

Test your skills in a simulated interview setting. Receive personalized feedback based on your performance. Available for Coding Interviews, System Design, and more.

AI Prompt

Build prompt engineering skills. Practice implementing AI-informed solutions.

Code Feedback

Evaluate and debug your code with the click of a button. Get real-time feedback on test cases, including time and space complexity of your solutions.

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AI Code Mentor

AI Code Mentor helps you quickly identify errors in your code, learn from your mistakes, and nudge you in the right direction — just like a 1:1 tutor!

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