Code With Go
  • Code With Go
  • 01. What, Who, Why and Where?
  • 02. Compiled vs Interpreted languages
  • 03. Types of Type!
  • 04. Stack and Heap Memory
  • 05. Garbage Collection
  • 06. About Go
  • 07. Go Playground
  • 08. Hello, World!
  • 09. Installing Go
  • 10. Variables
  • 11. Constants
  • 12. Integers
  • 12. Floats
  • 13. Boolean
  • 14. Strings
  • 15. Complex Numbers
  • 16. If Else
  • 17. Switch
  • 18. For
  • 19. User Defined Types
  • 20. Arrays
  • 21. Slices
  • 22. Structs
  • 23. Maps
  • 24. Functions
  • 25. Defer
  • 26. Pointers
  • 27. Methods
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09. Installing Go

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For Windows and Mac

  1. Download Go from

  2. Download Visual Studio Code from

  3. Install Go extension from

For Ubuntu

  1. Install Go using Bash shell

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install golang-go

2. Install VS Code from software center

3. Install Go extension from

Checking installation

Open new terminal window and type in below command to verify Go is installed successfully.

go version

This should output current installed go version.

https://golang.org/dl
https://code.visualstudio.com/download
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/go
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/go