Go

NOTE: This tutorial was created by GPT-3. With a little help from Steve and the Dabble Lab team.

The Go programming language is a statically typed, compiled, general-purpose, compiled-to-bytecode, and object-oriented programming language. It is a member of the Go programming language family. In this tutorial, we will cover the basics of Go.

Getting Started

To get started, we will need to install Go. To do this, we will use the Go get command. This will download and install the latest version of Go.

After installing Go, we will need to set the GOPATH environment variable. This is the path where Go will store all of its source code. We will use the following command to set the GOPATH environment variable:

export GOPATH=$HOME/go

Now we can start using Go.

To begin, we will create a new Go project. We will use the following command to create a new Go project:

mkdir -p golanghq/examples/
cd golanghq/examples/
mkdir -p hello
cd hello

Now, we will create a new Go file named main.go. We will use the following command to create a new Go file:

touch main.go

In the file, we will write the following code:

package main

Next, we will create a new file named hello.go. We will use the following command to create a new Go file:

touch hello.go

After we've created the hello.go file, we will open the file in our text editor. We will use the following command to open the file in our text editor:

code hello.go

This will open the file in visual studio code.

Now, we will write the following code in the hello.go file:

package main

hello := "Hello, World!"