get-programming-with-go

Write a program to determine how fast a ship would need to travel (in km/h) in order to reach Malacandra in 28 days.

Save some money to buy a gift for your friend.

Write a new piggy bank program that uses integers to track the number of cents rather than dollars.

Canis Major Dwarf is the closest known galaxy to Earth at 236,000,000,000,000,000 km from our Sun (though some dispute that it is a galaxy).

Decipher the quote from Julius Caesar: L fdph, L vdz, L frqtxhuhg.

Write a program that converts strings to Booleans: * The strings “true”, “yes”, or “1” are true .

Experiment: cipher.go To send ciphered messages, write a program that ciphers plain text using a keyword: plainText := "your message goes here" keyword := "GOLANG" Bonus: rather than write your plain text message in uppercase letters with no spaces, use the strings.Replace and strings.ToUpper functions to remove spaces and uppercase the string before you cipher it.

Experiment: methods.go Write a program with celsius , fahrenheit , and kelvin types and methods to convert from any temperature type to any other temperature type.

Experiment: calibrate.go Type listing 14.6 into the Go Playground to see it in action: * Rather than passing 5 as an argument to calibrate, declare and pass a variable.

CAPSTONE: TEMPERATURE TABLES Write a program that displays temperature conversion tables.

Experiment: chess.go * Extend listing 16.8 to display all the chess pieces at their starting positions using the characters kqrbnp for black pieces along the top and uppercase KQRBNP for white pieces on the bottom.

Experiment: terraform.go Write a program to terraform a slice of strings by prepending each planet with "New ".

Experiment: capacity.go Write a program that uses a loop to continuously append an element to a slice.

As far as eye could reach he saw nothing but the stems of the great plants about him receding in the violet shade, and far overhead the multiple transparency of huge leaves filtering the sunshine to the solemn splendour of twilight in which he walked.

A variation of Conway's Game of Life

Experiment: marshal.go Write a program that outputs coordinates in JSON format, expanding on work done for the preceding quick check.

Extension of the turtle program that will show turtle's location.