Problem scenario
You want to play TicTacToe. You have a Golang compiler installed. What should you do?

Solution
Prerequisites
This assumes that you have installed Go. If you need assistance, see this posting.

Procedures
1. Name this program tictactoe.go.

package main

import (
“strings”
“bufio”
“fmt”
“os”
)

func mapper(letter string) int{
if strings.TrimRight(letter, …

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Problem scenario
You want to test out the Golang compiler.  You want to know how to write a basic Go program and run it.  What do you do?

Solution
Prerequisites
You must have the Golang compiler installed.  If you need help, see this posting.

Procedures
1.  Create a file called hw.go with the following five lines:

package main
import “fmt”
func main() {
fmt.Println(“This is a Hello World program!”)
}

2. 

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Updated on 10/18/19

Problem scenario
You want to do some coding in the Go programming language.  You want a script to install Golang on any distribution of Linux (e.g., CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, or SUSE).  What do you do?

Solution
1.  Create a file in /tmp/ called go.sh with the following content:

version=1.10.8 # Change this version as needed
curl https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go$version.linux-amd64.tar.gz /tmp/go$version.linux-amd64.tar.gz
cp /tmp/go$version.linux-amd64.tar.gz /usr/local/go$version.linux-amd64.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/
tar xzvf go$version.linux-amd64.tar.gz
#echo “export PATH=””$””PATH:/usr/local/go/bin” ~/.profile
echo “export PATH=””$””PATH:/usr/local/go/bin” /etc/profile.d/go.sh
echo “You will have to log out and log back in for go to work.”
echo “You can use the ‘go version’ command to determine what version was installed”

2. 

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Problem scenario
You want to use the Go programming language.  There are various directions online that involve downloading files and modifying configuration files.  You just want simple directions to install Go to an Ubuntu Linux server.  What do you do?

Solution
Run these two commands:
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt -y install golang-go

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