Get Going: Hello, World

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akavel 3 years ago | link
- you can shorten Add’s parameters list as: (x, y int)
- did you consider maybe explaining in the article/chapter why you wrote main with small ‘m’, but Add with capital ‘A’? or actually changing the latter to start with small letter as well?
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  cadey 3 years ago | link
  Yeah, I intentionally wanted it to be verbose so it would be easier to understand.
  
  That’s a good point. I’ll go edit that. Thanks!
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adsouza 3 years ago | link

This is similar to what I cover (starting on slide 21) in these slides I created for a session I taught recently: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KTzbHNmbL9BNYJLNLlQavWPMdJflcwVxa57tlEg-aGk/edit#slide=id.g3782c86138_0_217
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cup 3 years ago | link
Note you can do this too:
```
package main
func main() {
   println("sun mon tue")
}
```
https://golang.org/pkg/builtin#println
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  cadey 3 years ago | link
  
  I’m aware, but IIRC that builtin is something that’s not guaranteed to be in future releases of Go. I want to teach people forward-compatible Go as much as possible.
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  verygoodsoftwarenotvirus 3 years ago | link
  
  I think fmt makes for a really great introduction to the notion of “importing” code, as it provides functionality even non-programmers can appreciate, and is just as built-in as println. I don’t see how getting rid of the import would necessarily speed up the user’s first code writing experience, or impart upon them a greater understanding.