Starting with Hello World

This wouldn't be a good book without a Hello World example. Our Hello World example can't be simpler, open your favorite text editor and create a file called main.go within our $GOPATH/src/[your_name]/hello_world with the following content:

package main 
 
func main(){ 
println("Hello World!") 
} 

Save the file. To run our program, open the Terminal window of your operating system:

  • In Linux, go to programs and find a program called Terminal.
  • In Windows, hit Windows + R, type cmd without quotes on the new window and hit Enter.
  • In Mac OS X, hit Command + Space to open a spotlight search, type terminal without quotes. The terminal app must be highlighted so hit Enter.

Once we are in our terminal, navigate to the folder where we have ...

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