2016 IRL Golang Workshop

This repository contains workshop material for the 2016 18F IRL Golang Workshop

Overview

This Workshop will go through:

• Go Basics
• Creating a web server
• Creating a simple web health checker
• Using a debugger
• Intro to Go testing

For the Table of Contents, refer to here

One Time Setup

# change your directory into where ever you normally store your code
# Create a Go workspace.
mkdir golang_workshop_ws
cd golang_workshop_ws

# clone the repo into the correct location of the workspace
git clone https://github.com/18F/golang_workshop_irl_2016.git src/github.com/18F/golang_workshop_irl_2016

# run the setup script
src/github.com/18F/golang_workshop_irl_2016/scripts/goup.sh && source $HOME/.gvm/scripts/gvm

Let's Start Everything Up!

# use this section of commands every time you want to start / resume this tutorial

# make sure you are in your workspace.
# establish go workspace formally
export GOPATH=$(pwd)

# change directory into the location of the cloned repo
cd src/github.com/18F/golang_workshop_irl_2016/

# start the ide and download / update tools
scripts/goprojectup.sh

Getting Started

If these steps look a little foreign, it's a great time to dive into Chapter 01

Oh no, I don't want this on my computer anymore.

# to remove just Go related stuff:
scripts/godown.sh
# to remove just Go related stuff and the IDE:
scripts/godown.sh -a