On Sun, 27 May 2018 17:31:42 -0700 (PDT) John <markfe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay I will confess my age: 9 ...... So your age is a major obstacle for many adults willing to help you set up in programming field. In many countries an adult speaking to a kid over the net can be in legal trouble. Don't be angry at them, or upset. This is written in the law to protect kids less self-aware than you. Still there are options to get you on the fast lane to learn anything you want. 1. Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/ provides teaching at all levels. As far as I know they do not discriminate on age. 2. CODE.org https://code.org/ specializes in teaching computer science. Kids and schoolteachers alike. 3. https://www.ck12.org/student/ will provide you with many textbooks. 4. https://yourbasic.org/golang/ is a portal to many Go focused readings. Many articles there aimed at way older than you students, but you will understand more and more with the time. As for Go setup: start with playground for a while. Uninstall IDE you installed. It is daunting and has a thousand knobs that for now will only distract you. Go compiler and other tools are easy to use with fingers only. 1. Install git. (This is a source control utility that is used for 'go get'). https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.17.0.windows.1/Git-2.17.0-64-bit.exe 2. Install Go tools: https://dl.google.com/go/go1.10.2.windows-amd64.msi You will use it for compiling your programs locally. You will use it on the 3. "Command prompt" aka "console": you can read how to get to it at https://www.howtogeek.com/235101/10-ways-to-open-the-command-prompt-in-windows-10/ 4. Use go playground http://play.golang.org/ as your editor and linter for exercises. Then copy/paste your code into the local editor and save as myprog.go or like and compile. After some time you will be confident enough to write all code locally, I bet. The most basic "programmer's" editor is called Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/6.x/6.9.2/npp.6.9.2.Installer.exe If you are brave enough you may also learn vim editor: https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/vim/pc/gvim81.exe I respect you, your sincerity and your will to learn young man. Keep on! Hope this helps, -- Wojciech S. Czarnecki << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE P.S. I urge someone with Windows environment to write a followup explaining step-by-step WIndows specific ways (set up GOPATH mkdir/cd on console). I am not familiar with win console enough and I do not want to mislead OP with nix/mac solutions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
