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/

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

The video tutorials are really light and don't provide nearly enough preparation to easily figure out the assignments. Assignments requirements are badly specified.

The peer review system is interesting but introduces a lot of latency.

Overall, I much preferred the CS50 Python available on EdX. This was excellent learning material and the grading system was pretty good and automated.

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.

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.

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

The code assignments should be graded through unit tests not peer reviewed, I had code that was working and unit tested (so I knew it worked) and someone graded that is didn't work, which was incorrect.

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.

I expected to see Ian writing and running codes. Just talking like that I think does not help. I took a programming course here and it was far far better.

Poorly structured assignments, very superficial. Don't take this course.

Slides have code that does not compile.

too hard when coming to the end sections

Most of the things are basic.

Course should be updated.

To easy

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Very basic, suitable for people with no expertise in the field. It is missing a lesson about the go command itself, and the tools it provide. The Tour of Go is way better.

It is better to be corrected by the instructor instead of others!