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title: Courses
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## 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](Learn).

## 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](https://github.com/fmi/go-lectures)] - (also in bulgarian)
  * Free University of Berlin (Germany) had a course [Introduction to Go Programming](http://w3.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS12/go/) in Spring 2013.
  * J.W. Goethe University (Frankfurt/Main, Germany) had a course [Introduction to Go Programming](http://www.sepl.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/2014-ws/b-ps2/index.de.html) in Spring 2015 (in german)
  * University of Pennsylvania had a course on [Go Programming](https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis193/) 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 an ongoing course [Go programming language](https://www.fer.unizg.hr/en/course/gpl) since 2020, held by Z. Bratković and B. Banelli. Videos available from academic year [2019./2020.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq18_oSNkHE&list=PLDG0WuJlyEw3GuJ4FAoP-ea8PCsU5J-9K&pp=iAQB) and [2020./2021.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms_5seF6Smg&list=PLDG0WuJlyEw1o7cQ7Raf_SHgak4G57zCW&pp=iAQB) (Croatian)
  * The Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University has offered a Go course as part of the [PB173: Domain Specific Development](https://is.muni.cz/predmet/fi/podzim2023/PB173?lang=en) course since 2023. The current course materials are publicly accessible under the [course-go organization](https://github.com/course-go).

## Programming Concepts

   * President University (Cikarang, West Java, Indonesia) had a course [Programming Concepts](http://president.ac.id/study/undergraduate/school-of-computer-science/information-technology) 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](https://www.udemy.com/user/toddmcleod/) at California State University Fresno
  * CSCI 194: Adv. Web Programming taught by [Todd McLeod](https://www.udemy.com/user/toddmcleod/) at California State University Fresno
  * CIT 90: Data Drive Websites taught by [Todd McLeod](https://www.udemy.com/user/toddmcleod/) at Fresno City College
  * CIT 94: Server Side Scripting taught by [Todd McLeod](https://www.udemy.com/user/toddmcleod/) 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](http://w3.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS13/alp4/) 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](http://www.ti.inf.uni-due.de/teaching/ss2014/mod_ns/) in summer 2014. [[Slides](http://www.ti.inf.uni-due.de/fileadmin/public/teaching/mod_ns/folien/SS2014/google-go-2x2.pdf)]

  * 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)](https://uit-inf-2202-f16.github.io/). 

  * University of Victoria (Canada) used Go in the section on Concurrency as a part of [Programming Languages (CSC 330)](https://heat.csc.uvic.ca/coview/course/2017091/CSC330)

## 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)](https://uit.no/education/courses/course?p_document_id=291961) and [Advanced Distributed Systems (INF-3203)](https://uit.no/education/courses/course?p_document_id=292883). 

## 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](https://boot.dev/learn/learn-cryptography) on Boot.dev. A code-in-the-browser course where cryptography principles are taught in the Go language.
  * [Computer Systems Security](https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs166/) (CS166) At Brown University. In particular, the final [Dropbox Project](https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs166/files/assignments/dropbox.pdf).