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    Get Going: Hello, World go christine.website
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      akavel avatar akavel 4 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 avatar cadey 4 years ago | link
        1. Yeah, I intentionally wanted it to be verbose so it would be easier to understand.
        2. That’s a good point. I’ll go edit that. Thanks!
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      adsouza avatar adsouza 4 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 avatar cup 4 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 avatar cadey 4 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 avatar verygoodsoftwarenotvirus 4 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.