Download Go here or run brew update then brew install go

Run go env to check if installation is successful.

Create a single workspace to manage all Go projects.

Setting GOPATH:

Open ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile with your text editor and add in the following:

export GOPATH="/Users/your-username/go-workspace-name"
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

Create src pkg bin folders in the GOPATH directory.

$GOPATH/src : Contains Go source files

$GOPATH/pkg : Contains package objects

$GOPATH/bin : Contains executable commands

For more information, look here for the official documentation to setup your libraries and workspace.

Clone this repository into the appropriate folder within $GOPATH/src.

To run the program, enter the directory exercise in terminal and type

go run main/main.go

"fmt"
"sort"
"strings"
"bufio"
"os"

For more information on packages, the official documentation can be found here.

• Using a regex expression to filter out common text elements such as "!", "?" and "'s" so that processed text will be only words

• Incorporate some form of testing or validation

• https://golang.org/doc/install
• https://golang.org/doc/code.html
• https://tour.golang.org/list
• https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
• https://rominirani.com/setup-go-development-environment-with-atom-editor-a87a12366fcf