# The Go Programming Language

This repository provides the downloadable example programs
for the book, "The Go Programming Language"; see http://www.gopl.io.

(At present, only Chapter 1 has been
<a href='http://www.informit.com/store/go-programming-language-9780134190440'>made available</a>,
so only the programs that accompany it, `gopl.io/ch1/...`, can be downloaded.
The other programs will be published as soon as the book is printed.)

These example programs are licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.<br/>
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You can download, build, and run the programs with the following commands:

	$ export GOPATH=$HOME/gobook            # choose workspace directory
	$ go get gopl.io/ch1/helloworld         # fetch, build, install
	$ $GOPATH/bin/helloworld                # run
	Hello, 世界

Many of the programs contain comments of the form `//!+` and `//!-`.
These comments bracket the parts of the programs that are excerpted in the
book; you can safely ignore them.  In a few cases, programs
have been reformatted in an unnatural way so that they can be presented
in stages in the book.