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Great job! We’ve just finished your first Go lesson! In this lesson we learned about:

  • What Go/Golang is & what its used for.
  • The Go compiler.
  • Go Packages, including the main for executables.
  • Go Functions, including the main function.
  • Comments
  • Resources, including go doc.

If you’re interested in setting up your computer to create Go programs on your own computer, use our guide for developing Go locally!

Instructions

Take a look at the code we wrote together. Review the concepts:

  • How to create a package declaration.
  • How to import packages.
  • How to create a main function and add code inside to print to the terminal.

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