1. Coding with Golang
October 21st, 6-7PM
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2. What is a GDSC?
Google Developer Student Clubs

3. We’re open to all majors!
If you would like to join GDSC at
UCF, it’s easy! The linked slide deck
has all of our socials, calendar,
mailing list, a step-by-step guide on
joining Bevy (our Google-created
RSVP site), and more!
tinyurl.com/gdsc-ucf-join-in
Want to Join GDSC?

5. https://linktr.ee/knighthacks
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Knight Hacks

6. Meet today’s speakers
Hannah Moss
GDSC UCF - Lead/President
Alice Yu
GDSC UCF - VP/Co-Lead
Andrei Gulapa
GDSC UCF - Marketing Lead

8. What is Golang/ Go?
● Golang or..Go?
○ go.org was not available → golang.org!
○ “Golang” == “Go” (but the actual language is called
Go!)
● Created by Google in 2007
● Open source programming language

9. Uses

10. Companies using Go

11. ● Easy to learn! Syntax is clean and simple
● Fast and secure
● Garbage collection
● Easy concurrency model
Pros

12. ● No generics
● Poor library support
● Time-consuming to write
Cons

13. Hello World!
- Packages
- Imports
- Functions / main
- All material is pulled from https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (Official Go website)
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14. Let’s do some math!
- Imports
- Exports
- All material is pulled from https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (Official Go website)
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15. Let’s do some math!
- Functions
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16. Let’s do some math!
- Shortened function parameters
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17. Swappy swap
- Multiple return types
- All material is pulled from https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (Official Go website)
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18. Practice time!
- Let’s code up a split number function!
- Split the number 17 into 2 numbers
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19. Practice time!
- What is the return type?
- Shorten this function’s return
parameters
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20. Practice time!
- What is the return type?
- Shorten this function’s return
parameters
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21. Let’s talk about variables!
- Declaring
- All material is pulled from https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (Official Go website)
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22. Let’s talk about variables!
- Initializing
- If we wanted to initialize var i, j to 1 and 2,
what would it look like?
- All material is pulled from https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (Official Go website)
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23. Let’s talk about variables!
- Initializing
- If we wanted to initialize var i, j to 1 and 2,
what would it look like?
- All material is pulled from https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (Official Go website)
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24. Let’s talk about variables!
- Short var declarations
- Used frequently
- All material is pulled from https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (Official Go website)
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25. Loops
- For loops
- What does a typical for loop
parameter look like for int i for
(i < 10) comparisons?
- What if we used a shortened var
initialization to initialize i? What
would it look like?
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26. Loops
- For loops
- All material is pulled from https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (Official Go website)
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27. Loops
- While loop
- Basically a shorted for loop
- All material is pulled from https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 (Official Go website)
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28. If statements
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29. If statements
You can shorten if statements that
have preconditions
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30. How can you replicate the Sqrt
function?
You’ll need to use a for loop
and declare extra variables!
Template:
Square roots
Time for your own
practice! Brain teaser
https://tour.golang.org/flowcontrol/8

31. Discord Setup Steps - Overview
1. Set Up Discord Server
2. Create a new Discord Application -
https://discord.com/developers/applications
a. Create a new Discord Bot
3. Connect the Bot to your Server
Let’s Dive in!!
Let’s Build A Discord Bot

32. Repl.it Setup Steps - Overview
1. Create a new Repl within Repl.it
https://replit.com/
2. Import discordgo library : github.com/bwmarrin/discordgo
3. Add Discord bot’s token to repl
Let’s Dive in!!
Let’s Build A Discord Bot

33. Coding Time!
Let’s Build A Discord Bot

34. Coding with Golang
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