Installing Go

ByWalter Wimberly

When installing Go, you have a couple of options.

Source Code

First, you can install from source code, which means you will need to compile the source code. This allows for a lot of flexibility. However, the code base itself is written in Go, so you will need to download a binary of the Go compiler to start with.

To download, you can go to: https://go.dev/doc/install/source

Installing the Binaries

Most commonly you’ll install the binaries which will allow you to create and compile your own applications.

If you go to https://go.dev/doc/install you can find the appropriate binary for you to download and install.

Once you download the appropriate file, you can run the correct install package. Follow the instructions, and allow the application to install.

Managing Versions

Sometimes you will need a different versions of a programming language. This is because you may have a project which was started in one language, and don’t want to worry about changes while developing an app. As such, you might want to have one version for one project, and another version for other projects.

To manage the versions of programming languages, you can go to this page to see how. https://go.dev/doc/manage-install

Installing Go was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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