Introduction

Go is a great language for CS majors. This page presents some university courses that use Go. For a list of free and commercial Go training classes, see the Learn wiki.

Language

• University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science used to have a course named Introduction to Go, taught by K. Bäckman: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/courses/582336 in Spring 2010.
• University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics has elective course named “Programming with Go”, taught by K. Vladimiroff: http://fmi.golang.bg (bulgarian) and their [public lectures] - (also in bulgarian)
• Free University of Berlin (Germany) had a course Introduction to Go Programming in Spring 2013.
• J.W. Goethe University (Frankfurt/Main, Germany) had a course Introduction to Go Programming in Spring 2015 (in german)
• University of Pennsylvania had a course on Go Programming in Spring 2017.
• SUNY Potsdam (Potsdam, NY) “Selected languages course with Go”, taught by Dr. Brian C. Ladd (Associate Professor of Computer Science). First class in Spring 2017
• University of Milan has a course named “Computer Programming” taught by Paolo Boldi: http://boldi.di.unimi.it/Corsi/Inf2018/
• University of Zagreb (Croatia), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, has a course Go programming language since 2020.

Programming Concepts

• President University (Cikarang, West Java, Indonesia) had a course Programming Concepts for every junior students (using C, Go and Javascript).

Web

• CS 4830: Science and Engineering of the WWW taught by Ryanne Dolan at University of Missouri: http://4830.ryannedolan.info/
• CSCI 130: Web Programming taught by Todd McLeod at California State University Fresno
• CSCI 194: Adv. Web Programming taught by Todd McLeod at California State University Fresno
• CIT 90: Data Drive Websites taught by Todd McLeod at Fresno City College
• CIT 94: Server Side Scripting taught by Todd McLeod at Fresno City College

Concurrency

• Go is being used at the end of a yearlong freshman computer science class at KTH: http://yourbasic.org/golang/concurrent-programming/

• Go, Concurrent and Systems Programming from Rochester Institute of Technology: http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/go-2011-2/index.xml

• Free University of Berlin (Germany) had a course on Concurrent Programming with Go as a reference language in 2013.

• University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) had a lecture about Go and CSP within their course on Concurrent systems modelling in summer 2014. [Slides]

• University of Stavanger, Norway. We use Go to teach concurrency principles in DAT320 Operating Systems. http://www.uis.no/studies/study-courses/?code=DAT320_1&parentcat=9835

• University of Tromsø, Norway. Concurrent and Data-Intensive Programming (INF-2200).

• University of Victoria (Canada) used Go in the section on Concurrency as a part of Programming Languages (CSC 330)

Distributed Computing

• Distributed Computer Systems (CS 138) at Brown: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs138/s16/syllabus.html

• Distributed Systems course (COS 418) at Princeton: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall16/cos418/

• Distributed Systems course (15-440) at CMU: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/15-440/F12/index.html (see also http://da-data.blogspot.se/2013/02/teaching-distributed-systems-in-go.html)

• 6.824 Distributed Systems at MIT is using Go in its labs: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/.

• CSE 223B, Spring 2014: Distributed Computing and Systems at UC San Diego http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp14/cse223B-a/index.html

• Dixie State University teaches Go in an introductory course to programming languages and later on in distributed systems.

• CS 352, Computer Organization and Design, at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire: http://cs.uwec.edu/~buipj/teaching/cs.352.f13/lab_01_high_performance_computing.html

• KTH Stockholm uses Go to teach concurrency: DD1396 Parallel and Concurrent Programming. https://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/DD1396

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology: TTK4145 Real-Time Programming http://www.itk.ntnu.no/fag/TTK4145/information/

• University of Stavanger, Norway. We use Go to build a replicated state machine based on Paxos in DAT520 Distributed Systems. http://www.uis.no/studies/study-courses/?code=DAT520_1&parentcat=9835

• Moscow State University, Russia. Go is used in graduate course on “Selected Topics in Distributed Systems Engineering”

• D7024E - Mobile and Distributed Computing Systems at Luleå University of Technology. Go is used to implement the DHT algorithm Chord and create a data replication system. http://www.ltu.se/edu/course/D70/D7024E/D7024E-Mobila-och-distribuerade-datorsystem-1.67844?l=en&kursView=kursplan

• University of Tromsø, Norway. Distributed Systems Fundamentals (INF-3200) and Advanced Distributed Systems (INF-3203).

Networking

• Computer Networking (COS 461) at Princeton: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring16/cos461/ (See Assignment 1 https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/COS461-Spring2016/tree/master/notebook/assignment1 and Assignment 4 http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring16/cos461/assignments/.

Compiler Design

• Compiler Design (CS712/CS812) at the University of New Hampshire: http://www.cs.unh.edu/~cs712/. In Fall 2016 we are compiling a subset of Go to LLVM code.

• Introduction to Compilers (6197, Spanish) at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid: http://lsub.org/comp. Students write a compiler in Go that implements a language for drawing graphics.

Security

• Learn Cryptography in Go on Boot.dev. A code-in-the-browser course where cryptography principles are taught in the Go language.
• Computer Systems Security (CS166) At Brown University. In particular, the final Dropbox Project.