> How did your students adjust to working with the GOPATH?
No issue at all. I told them to create a directory under ~/go/src, and
that was it.
> It seems to cause some people trouble.
In my experience, undergraduate students accept pretty much anything if
the instructions you give them are clear and deterministic ("write
`public static void main(String[] args)' at the beginning of the
program") and the reason is due to a major force ("otherwise the
compiler will reject your code"). It's the more experienced programmers
who tend to complain if the user experience differs too much from what
they're used to.
(Aside: what undergrads dislike is software that has too many different
failure modes, and which they therefore perceive as non-deterministic.
For example, some students develop a phobia against git -- "it goes
wrong differently each time, and then I have to ask for help". End of
aside.)
-- Juliusz
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