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In this lesson you learned:

  • How to use literals in a Go program.
  • How to create constants that give names to values.
  • The basic types in Go: ints, floats, complexs, and strings.
  • The different numeric types and what values they accept.
  • How to create variables in Go with a specific type.
  • How to read an error in Go.
  • How to assign values to variables using =.
  • How to create variables in Go with inferred type.
  • How to declare multiple variables on a single line.
  • The “zero” values for variables that haven’t been assigned a value yet.
  • How Go decides the type for “default” int types depending on the architecture of the computer it’s running on.
  • How to update values in variables using = and other related operators.

What a lot of concepts! These tools will be very valuable to you along your journey as a programmer. Congratulations!

Instructions

If you want to challenge yourself more:

  • Use Go’s -=, *=, /= operators to do some mathematical calculations.
  • Using variables to customize a greeting message for yourself and other users.
  • Edit how the current variables are declared and initialized (but keep the same functionality).

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