Learner Reviews & Feedback for Getting Started with Go by University of California, Irvine
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JP
Apr 5, 2020
Great intro. If you already know the basics, you probably don't need this course though. Not much of a deep dive, more of a "skim the surface" type course. Week 4 on IO was the most beneficial for me.
HS
Jun 1, 2020
some of the best, clearest, easiest to understand explanations I've ever come across. Other computer science instructors should do this course. not for them to learn Go, but to learn how to explain.
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By Krishna M A
鈥Nov 17, 2019
More examples can be added in the videos illustrating basic operations.
By Nafisur A
鈥May 19, 2019
Completely theoretical course. Only assignments are coding practical.
By Michael N
鈥Apr 12, 2020
Too much water, a common blah blah blah blah course for housewives
By Tim W
鈥May 10, 2020
Content reasonably good. Some errors in quizes and assignments.
By Antoine V M
鈥Nov 4, 2021
Too simple for intermediate developers (targetted profile)
By Maksims M
鈥Feb 11, 2020
2 times received incorrect grades from other students.
By Saurabh S
鈥Nov 8, 2019
Sweet and simple introduction to the GoLang.
By Roberto M P
鈥Feb 16, 2020
The grading systems is somehow inefficient.
By Tiago O V
鈥May 16, 2023
It's basic, I expected to cover more stuff
By Luke S
鈥Oct 21, 2018
This course is a little too basic & slow.
By Suhas B
鈥Oct 19, 2023
Very basic, need more hands on examples.
By Giorgio B
鈥Apr 14, 2024
The course is well done, but too easy
By Fanchao C
鈥Dec 6, 2020
To many coding errors on the slides锛
By Petr N
鈥Feb 13, 2020
Assignments are super weird
By ildukim
鈥Dec 22, 2018
Too basic.
By Conor T
鈥Dec 7, 2022
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By m z
鈥Aug 30, 2022
transcripts are illegible due to lack of spacing. a lot of verbal redundancy. go reference material links not linked from course description. first assignment wants a screenshot. subsequent ones are peer reviewed and never e.g. programatically compared against test cases as in other coursera courses. some assignment prompts lack detail e.g. why initialize slice to 3 elements when taking in user input and displaying sorted slice?
covers some language basics, no better than exercism's go track which is free https://exercism.org/tracks/go/
By Ngoc-Mai N
鈥Apr 8, 2025
With all due respect, this 2-star is due to a certain insufferable peer-graded assignment with a terribly ambiguous problem statement, no example backing up what the problem trying to say, peer judges judging submissions whichever way they interpret the problem, and even with feedback on this exact part for months, no revision had been made. The rest of the course is fine. I do learn from it well, and I'll give it kudos.
By Philipp N
鈥Aug 29, 2025
Yet another bad programming course by a renowned US university. High production value low quality content. The lectures are confusing, don't explain some core concepts, the exercises and quizzes don't match the progression of the lecture, sometimes even require information from the follow-up course, I could go on here, but it's the next course that really grind my gears with teaching bad coding practice.
By mashiro w
鈥Nov 4, 2020
Pretty decent course with two flaws:
tagged as an Intermediate course while going from very basic stuff.
most of the assignments can be script graded while using peer review and people just grade it in pure randomness. Somebody just gives you a full point while others grade you on a error handling issue considering the assignment is just a toy program showing you can use a slice or something
By Shly
鈥Feb 14, 2020
Course was very introductory on high-level topics for a class that assumes you are an intermediate or higher programmer. Requirements for weekly assignments were confusing and left a lot of unanswered questions on how certain things should be handled. Peer-based grading clogged the message board with "please grade my assignment" posts and unequal grading standards.
By Deleted A
鈥Jan 4, 2021
Peer grading is the laziest form of grading. Do some work, write unit tests, provide a decent grader. For a so called intermediate level course there is too much bla-bla and too little go specific material. Programming assignments are few are not challenging to say the least.
By yasharnesabian
鈥Sep 20, 2020
This was not a productive course at all! there are many syntaxes problems in the codes which by the way are only shown in the slides, first I tried to learn go using this course but now I decided to learn go using other online resources
By Paul R
鈥Feb 16, 2021
The code assignments should be graded through unit tests not peer reviewed, I had code that was working and unit tested (so I knew it worked) and someone graded that is didn't work, which was incorrect.
By Peter M
鈥Aug 25, 2020
Why say something in once concise sentence when you can say it in hundreds of words? There is so much unnecessary waffling in all these Go courses. Not to mention mistakes.