Technical requirements

In order to proceed with all the recipes in this chapter, configure your environment according to these steps:

1. Download and install Go 1.12.6 or higher on youroperatingsystem athttps://golang.org/doc/install.
2. Open a Terminal or console application, create a project directory such as ~/projects/go-programming-cookbook, and navigate to this directory. All code will be run and modified from this directory.

3. Clone the latest code into~/projects/go-programming-cookbook-original and optionally work from that directory rather than typing the examples manually, as follows:

          $ git clone [email protected]:PacktPublishing/Go-Programming-Cookbook-Second-Edition.git go-programming-cookbook-original