Go Workshop for Beginners

Getting Started

Installing GO

Home/Linuxbrew

It may be convenient to install the latest version of Go through the Homebrew and Linuxbrew package managers.

$ brew install go

Install with Binary Distributions

The https://golang.org/dl/ page contains distros for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and source. The installation instructions explains how to install them.

Verify your Installation

$ go version   
go version go1.13 darwin/amd64

Getting the Workshop Code

$ go get github.com/solidnerd/go-workshop

or

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/solidnerd/go-workshop
$ git clone $GOPATH/src/github.com/solidnerd/go-workshop

Check your installation with a first running Go Programm

$ go run github.com/solidnerd/go-workshop

Aftwards switch to the Workshop Dir

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/solidnerd/go-workshop

Resources

A lot of inspiration and examples comes from here sendwithus/workshop-go